It allows you to center the specimen, and if it is set up correctly, then when you switch objectives it should still be there and only need fine focusing.
It also reduces the chance of crushing the specimen and/or breaking the slide or the lens as the LPO is further away from the slide than the HPO.
So that the specimen will be centered first
Under low power you can see more of the specimen - which is important so that you can easily center it in the field of view, and spot which area(s) you would like to look at in more detail.
The traditional objective of a firm is to maximize shareholder wealth. This is mostly done through profit maximisation. This objective is questionable now though as the pursuit of profit can come at the expense of natural resources, the environment, labour standards etc.
The internet was invented by DARPA largely as a reaction to the cold war. Packet switching would allow information to travel from one place to another even if some of the nodes were missing, due to nuclear war or something. I beat the internet. The end boss is really hard.