I wouldn’t say it only rewards psychopaths and rapists, but it does take a specific type of person to be at the very top of the all time rich people lists.

The character traits often used to describe those types of people often align pretty closely with regular psychopaths except these ones are ultra wealthy and therefore harder to shut down because of their massive wealth and influence.

Poor psychopaths can’t get outta nearly as many situations by just throwing money at people so they tend to get caught by the system.

All that being said there are “good” rich and powerful people but they aren’t narcissistic or egotistical so they tend to fly under the radar and not catch my much media attention.

I know Myspace Tom isn’t considered ultra wealthy as he only has a piddly couple hundred million dollars, but the guy made one of the most influential early social media websites and then sold it and dipped out of the public eye entirely. Now he does photography and just lives his life.

We need more Myspace Toms and less Elon Musks.