When profit is all that matters, and ethics get in the way of those profits (as ethics always will), this sort of behavior becomes "just shrewd business". And in a capitalist economic system, returning the maximum profit on the capital invested is the one and only purpose of commercial enterprise, because the capital investors get to make all the decisions. So all the decisions they make are based on returning a maximum profit on the capital they've invested. The harm done to anyone else involved in the commercial exchange is irrelevant to them, especially if it's being done out of sight and out of mind by their well-paid toadies.
This, in a nutshell, is what is slowly and inexorably destroying modern human civilization. It is eating itself from within, with greed, and it's total collapse is the ONLY possible end result. Unfortunately, we are pretty much all still refusing to recognize it or do anything about it, and so it becomes inevitable. I feel bad for the youngsters. A lot of blood and tears will flow when that collapse finally happens. It will be horrific on an epic scale. And it will have been OUR generation that laid the course.