South Africans are living below the poverty and struggling to live day by day. It is therefore clear that there are benefits of poverty for both the individual and the community. In both individual individual and the community they benefit, whereby there is helping others in achieving something in this instance the poor help in mobility of upward of other groups, dirty work and immigration leads to investment class to do very well on the backs of underpaid workers.

Low-wage work gets done, whereby welfare reform is moreover designed to motivate welfare recipients into the workforce. Individuals tends to go into recycling contributions which then recycling of goods and incompetent professional is encouraged and gains momentum all helped by poverty.

Due to poverty individual and community benefits whereby professional and business niches get created. In this regard individuals or community at large tends to open pawn shops, liquor stores,payday loans and more which certain living allowance/incomes could come in and the livelihoods of all be better. Poverty benefits individual in a way that it leads them to know how to do more, as one had always had to do it himself/herself. Poverty brings about an individual to accumulate variety of skills, have collection of tools and know how to use them, in this instance are benefits in such manner.

One becomes more resourceful as poverty leads to finding creative solutions and therefore can-do attitude and creative approach to problem-solving is applied and exists. Managing of finances is what benefits individual and the community, in this instance one learnt about budget and how to stick to it and thereafter leads to simple and straightforward financial situations. Benefits is that family is brought closer, it is seen in a way whereby poor people work together as a team to achieve a common goal. One can make a bigger positive difference in his/her lifetime, one eventually have the stamina and therefore does not relax to change their socio-economic status for the better, as they know how difficult it is to get something.