There's a reason "shit rolls downhill" is a common idiom.
More recently, our politicians simply “don’t recall”, or worse directly lie to us.
For C-level folks, its simpler. Take no responsibility ever, unless forced to by the courts. Even then, taking actual responsibility is so rare that I have no examples.
That this is common in most organizations shows that most larger organizations end up being selection systems for filtering sociopathic to the top.
It is not because their are deliberately designed this way, but because this is what sociopaths seek, and the organization fails to actively filter against it.
The sociopaths are the ones designing the organization and creating the legal and bureaucratic frameworks ostensibly meant to filter them out. That the end result nurtures and rewards them and allows them to use their subordinates as a bullet sponge seems entirely deliberate.