The Poor and Society Function
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The Poor and Society Function
Poverty is an aspect rooted within our societies and continually presents across generations, regions, and precisely, we cannot overrule. Poverty has both negative and positive aspects to the society and economy though people tend to focus on poverty negatively not thinking of a possibility of its positive aspects. Sociologists like Gans (Henslin, 2014) focused on explaining the positivity of poverty to the society and why the poor are of importance to our societies and how they help the society, we live. Gans explored the contribution of poverty to the society from the positive end and there are functions that resonate with me (Henslin, 2014). First, the poor ensure that some work that could not be done by the rich gets done at a lower cost, giving an option of poorly paid or low wage workforce that keep industries and institutions going (Henslin, 2014). We should get to know that the poor have their contributions to our societies and that without them exist some of the works could not be done.
Another point is that the poor clears the buck of the economy providing market for the low-cost and low-quality products that the rest of the people would not think of purchasing making the economy efficient (Henslin, 2014). They provide ready market for products and goods that the rest dispose making efficient use of them to the last bit, and for these reasons, we should clearly understand that the poor equally help the society and has a significant contribution just as the rest. One of the functions not enlisted is that the poor toil to produce natural foodstuff since they cannot afford the technology. Most of the products are used as supplementary diet for those who feed on modified or processed food. Secondly, the poor do not have the best at their disposal, but we realize that they creatively get the best out of what they have. The poor live with continual creativeness that is incomparable to those of us who has the best.