> Pretty much all of the people that are in the billionaire class with a few exceptions have been rewarded while repeatedly lying, cheating and stealing.

does that mean your heuristic boils down to: in general terms, individuals with more power/money == more lying, cheating, and stealing.

If so, do you also hold the same assessment of entire societies or countries?

With some the plunder is indisputable, like The Netherlands, whereas with others it is maybe more "subtle" and organic, but generally, the richer a society is the more "it" lies/cheats/steals relative to poorer societies?