My hypothesis on why bad people win power.

If you are good you collect power and use that to help other people. If you are bad you collect power to use to gain more power and only do minimal helping of others. The good person will have to obtain more power to fight the bad person than the bad person needs. This gives the bad person the advantage.

Claim: Criminals are an evolutionary advantage for society.

 

Proof by contradiction. Image a society that never had criminals. They would have no police or legal system. They would have no experience using violence to control others. If such a society met another society that had criminals they would be taken over because they would have no institutions for applying violence. So criminals help societies survive.