Okay so now let's take person A and person B.

A is super friendly. B is an asshole.

A and B both indepedently go solo hiking to the same park.

A ends up making some friends with some company X employees on the trail, hikes with them for part of the trail, and hears inside info, and then they depart ways.

B is an asshole and so those people don't want to talk to B. B makes no friends, hikes alone the whole time, and therefore gets no inside info.

A should be rewarded by the markets for their people skills, no?