I go to gatherings of anarchists and sometimes can be seen in the streets of the city I live in, Asheville. One of the biggest problems that capitalism has created in Atlanta is poverty. Additionally, the government of the city has made the great goal of the city to become a world-known tourist and convention city. The city government, which is mainly the puppet of the wealthy business elite mentioned earlier, believes that these expenditures enhance the economy of the region and put more money in everyone's pockets. This assertion that development and urban gentrification benefits all is not a new or entirely without logic.
Commerce does bring jobs to even the most unskilled laborors, or at least usually it does.
The problem is that in Atlanta, all of the money from this development has ended up in the pockets of a very very few people while making thousands of people homeless. It has then affected new laws to keep the former residents of these low-cost housing neighborhoods from being seen by anyone. The Olympics have become the symbol for the Atlanta that business interests hope will make them rich. The Olympics have also come to serve as a reminder to activists of what is wrong with Atlanta. The City has to date spent millions of dollars on Olympic improvements while not doing as much as opening a shelter for the homeless.