WEBSITE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H32z45o0WxA&ab_channel=TheDailyShowwithTrevorNoah This Youtube video is an interview of author Anand Giridharadas on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. In this video, Giridharadas describes the issue of very wealthy people, who claim to be philanthropists, contributing to the financial inequality of our world, making it so that positive change for those who do not have a lot of money, including the homeless, cannot happen. We learn that the 1 percent takes 49 percent of new income and the top .1 percent owns more wealth than the bottom 80 percent of this country. We learn that very rich people keep their money by under-paying people, avoiding taxation, insecurely employing people etc., and then publicly present their little bit of philanthropy work as if that offsets the measures they take to keep their money. Capital equals power, so the more capital you have, the more power you have. 

MAGAZINE ARTICLE: https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/9ky735/kanye-sold-a-jacket-inspired-by-a-homeless-teen-for-400-and-people-are-not-happy This magazine article, “kanye sold a jacket inspired by a homeless teen for $400 and people are not happy” by Tyler Watamanuk, exhibits the exploitation of a jacket worn by dead homeless teen Tweaky Dave by one of the most famous capitalists in the world, Kanye West. We learn that Kanye West got an idea for a jacket he sold for 400 dollars at a pop-up shop from a replica of a jacket that Tweaky Dave wore when he was alive. We learn of the lost opportunity for homelessness awareness that occurred when Kanye West appropriated Tweaky Dave’s jacket and the upset it caused for those who knew its origins. This article exhibits a very clear example of how capitalism feeds off of homelessness.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-13/what-causes-homelessness-start-with-capitalism This newspaper article, “How the Streets Got So Mean” by Mimi Kirk, identifies the history of homelessness and examines the link between capitalism and homelessness through the lens of professor and author Don Mitchell. This article identifies different legislative changes that target homeless people rather than helping homeless people in the name of capitalism. What homeless people are able to do in public spaces is regulated in order to enable public spaces to produce capital. We also learn about how these legislative changes have an effect on the rest of the general public in a negative way. Capitalism does not take care of the most vulnerable groups in our society, it exploits and targets them. 

SCHOLARLY SOURCE: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10911359.2012.707941 This scholarly article, “Social Stigma and Homelessness: The Limits of Social Change” by John R. Belcher and Bruce R. DeForge, sheds light on the link between homelessness and capitalism. We learn of the stigma that homelessness is caused by the individual, rather than the social and economic systems that exist, and evaluate these opposing arguments. Apparently, capitalism needs and values laborers and consumers, and homeless people often are not actively working or consuming as much, thus they are not valued in the eyes of capitalism. We are provided with different ways people approach the issue of homelessness, some are apathetic and some are sympathetic. We are also given different methods of solving this issue. Overall, the role of stigmatization is emphasized in this article as a means of keeping homelessness alive.