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Your assuming CEO and billionaires are / can be friends with actual down to earth good people.
They can't.
No idea, I've never known anyone who was VP or CEO. My guess is by the time you reach that position you've already surrounded yourself with like minded soulless monsters, those childhood friends have been purged long ago. Perhaps a family member or two might say something at a holiday dinner, but most people probably say fuck it and keep the peace or stop going to family events where this guy's monstrous stink sours the mood.
Your guess seems to be confirmed by a peer reviewed paper in Sociology, The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields by Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell:
the engine of rationalization and bureaucratization has moved from the competitive marketplace to the state and the professions. Once a set of organizations emerges as a field, a paradox arises: rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them. We describe three isomorphic processes--coercive, mimetic, and normative--leading to this outcome.
Yeah literally nobody with any remnant of a soul makes it to big healthcare CEO like the consulting pipeline alone already filters out human beings
CEOs have friends who are also rich and exploited people to get rich. They don't care and only think about us as expendable resources for capital gain. Ethical treatment only extends to those at their perceived level.
Ya, people don't typically keep friends that don't align with their own interests
What Luigi incident? He was with me working out at the gym.
People getting CEO jobs aren't hanging with working class bros. They either never were working class or they shed those connections on their way along the corporate ladder.
So I worked for someone who worked with the c suite and more than once I heard a comment about how they were told are not to socialize below director level. Asses until they need something done and anyone who knows shit has quit so they're fucked and have to start being nice to people.
Yeah he had friends but they would probably have done the same thing in his situation