"I don't think they [companies] sit there with a glass of wine petting an evil cat, and there's two decisions, one of them is good for society and one is good for the profit, and they choose the profit"<br>Oh my sweet summer child...<br>That is exactly what boards of directors in capitalist companies do (maybe without the wine and cats though). They have no higher priority than to make profit for their shareholders, and they will push up against as many legal boundaries as they can to do it (or sometimes just go over them, or pay to get laws changed in their favor).