Michael Jackson - Bad Lyrics Meaning

For me, in Bad, MJ is using the lyrics in a multi-directional way. He is saying you can look/dress/act cool/bad and still be a good person - but I also think he is saying that many kids/people are born into a position of inequality, where their place in life, often causes them to be bad - and perceived as bad - and more likely to be 'trouble' or get involved in bad stuff, because of the poverty they are born in to, and the difficulty of surviving any other way.
Today is the first day I looked up the meaning of the song. I have been a little surprised, because personally, I always took it as another 'They don't really care about us' - and I found myself rather disappointed to largely see more trial and surface interpretations.
So when Michael sings, 'Whose Bad', for me, he is asking, the poor kids or the state?