Yeah except that a lot of - not all - executives maintain something akin to class solidarity with other executives at big companies, especially their big vendor

Yeah except that a lot of - not all - executives maintain something akin to class solidarity with other executives at big companies, especially their big vendors.. Because at some point they might want/need another job, and so often times it's better to help each other out, at the expense of the folks lower down. Those folks are useless to them, personally, but that VP at Big Vendor probably isn't.