Psychopaths

No one plans to live in poverty
No more than planning for a car accident
You just hope it doesn't happen to you
Some know it never will happen
Because of their family perhaps
Or their likely natural talent
Call that 'merit' if you need to
Some type of physical ability
The emotional ability to concentrate
Get rudimentary tasks done maybe
A social system ensuring one's welfare
'Imagine the starving poor in Africa
What have you got to complain about?'
There was something I saw on YouTube
Clusters of mental illness described
By some leading professor or such
The categories of mad, bad, or sad
I knew which one I was straight away
Slogging away in my eternal gloom
The bad can be richly rewarded she said
Because of their lack of empathy
And risk taking leads to 'achievement'
A society led by complete psychopaths
Well isn't that progress for us after all
Sobering and troubling to ponder
Generating more madness and sadness