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As the other commenter said, I'm not really sure these people were 'good' before. Maybe Sunday school 'good' as in they were good at faking things.
But sure, if you want to call it that, then I'll just say that yes, some humans effectively have a negative gene that only activates if they get wealthy. A predisposition to rich asshole-ness.
I do not believe this is a universal trait or even a majority trait however. And, while these people aren't good, they aren't the sort of evil that's implied when you're talking about billionaires.
Aunt Becky going full Karen just cause she got a million dollars in a will is far different than healthcare CEOs knowingly implementing policies to auto deny coverage for kids with cancer just so they can earn another billion that they don't actually need, care about or even use.
No matter how much of a bitch Becky became, she's unlikely to suddenly be cool with the murder of children just because of some money in her bank account. It's not that kind of evil corruptive force. Those traits had to be there from the beginning.