Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin?
Tobacco companies?
Wherein I highlight (but as you guys surely know) that Purdue Pharma has literally NO relationship to Purdue University.
Another good example would have been Martin Shkreli and the pricing of Daraprim... Or Mylan Pharmaceuticals raising the prices of the EpiPen.
In both cases the price hikes were not illegal [Shkreli's legal issues were related, but more related to securities fraud], but I would call them unethical.
It's been suggested by very knowledgeable people here that there couldn't possibly be enough wiggle room for large corporations to act unethically without getting caught.
No, nobody has stated that. We've stated that there are ethical and unethical people in corporate America and that it is NOT universal that people will pick profits over ethics as an automatic statement when in conflict.
Not all ethical issues are illegal, but that doesn't mean that every business skirts crosses ethical barriers even when there are no legal implications involved.
Is it that hard to recognize that people in corporate America are just like people in the rest of America? Some have high integrity and live according to what is right, and some are vile crooks. GENERALLY, people don't like to work for snakes and crooks, so corporate executives usually at least have to put up the veneer of respectability and integrity even if they don't have it naturally.
