Based on your statement, if the company gets more money by doing all sorts of terrible things to its contractors and employees then that's the right thing to do

Based on your statement, if the company gets more money by doing all sorts of terrible things to its contractors and employees then that's the right thing to do? There's going to be a ton of local minima in decisions and gray areas in things that you can't accurately value if you reduce it all to money. I think you haven't quite thought through this one completely.