Few reasons come to mind: The way capitalism is designed is that not everyone can have a job. So you pay the poor not to starve and come loot your house. Also

Few reasons come to mind: The way capitalism is designed is that not everyone can have a job. So you pay the poor not to starve and come loot your house. Also, I believe, there was a study suggesting that more equal society is better for everyone involved, including you. Poverty also inhibits education and I suppose you can figure out why uneducated or lowly educated society is bad.