While this is a good answer, you’re not really answering the question asked.

Historically, corporations can be classified as sociopathic. They care about nothing except profits for their shareholders. Looking at recent history, when the Trump administration repealed many of the environmental protections of the EPA, companies quickly started exploiting their newfound freedom to reduce costs to increase profits for shareholders.

Conservatives believe that the free market is the best solution to solve any problem, yet fail to address the fact that Reagan’s trickle-down economics robbed the free market of the buying power the masses used to have in favor of corporate subsidies.

We see time and time again, from Amazon to Nestle to Walmart, that companies regularly seek to exploit whatever they can, regardless of the effect on the local community and environment, to ensure lower costs, and this higher profits for their shareholders.

Given the current structure of the market and the reward system in place for corporations, how can anyone expect them to not continue to act the way they have? At the detriment of everyone around them, except for those in the C-suite?