[lastyearman]

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.

[vixen99]

Capitalism is 'designed'? So who were the 'Marx and Engels' of capitalism when folk were trading with each other out of their caves?