What are the benifits of poverty for the individual and the community? 

It's easy to hire someone who's desperate for money at lower wages and to do your dirty work... 

Poverty is a problem far more than homeless ect. People pay low wages to domestic workers because they know that they need the money to provide for their families. It helps recycling contributions, people often go trough others trash to find things like plastic bottles to take to a recycling center. 

It helps upholding conventional norms. Poor people most often get caught in criminal acts and they are the ones who have to undergo drug tests moat of the time. Poor people ate seen as defiant, irresponsible and they have inefficient motivation because they sometimes beg. 

The community gets to pin most crime related gangs ect to poor people and people living in poverty because they will do anything to get money so they can feed their families.