How is this not a red-herring? Does "massively profitable" mean the same as "the most profitable"? OP's point is that there is allot of money on the line and t

How is this not a red-herring? Does "massively profitable" mean the same as "the most profitable"? OP's point is that there is allot of money on the line and that serves as inertia to keep the highly punitive measures in place. $1.7 billion is allot of inertia. It might not be as much as Exxon who wants to deny global warming, or Walmart who wants more "free trade" but are we to ignore mass incarceration because there are more profitable moral hazards?