Imagine your bro gets promoted from VP of somewhere to CEO of a company with a lot of bad press. You grew up with the guy. Think you would take a chance at trying to exert gentle social pressure on him?

Probing my underlying thoughts, probably something about social checks and balances preventing violence

IDK if good friends have ever slapped it out of business leaders before when there is a market etc. to consider

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.

Yeah he had friends but they would probably have done the same thing in his situation

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.

What Luigi incident? He was with me working out at the gym.

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.

Relevant:

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/aidosmeato/luigis-got-an-alibi

https://open.spotify.com/track/5IIy1gETRzMI6FGf7tpFTS

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.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2095101

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.

Your assuming CEO and billionaires are / can be friends with actual down to earth good people.

They can't.

X doubt