If you mean, would companies take advantage of the situation to raise prices and increase margins, then yes of course they do. If you mean, this whole problem

If you mean, would companies take advantage of the situation to raise prices and increase margins, then yes of course they do. If you mean, this whole problem wouldn't even exist if the businesses weren't trying to create it, no that is not the case. They were fully as greedy and deceptive before 2020. It should also be pointed out that some businesses involved had, in fact, too low of a profit margin to invest in new capacity, so trying to raise prices and increase margins, while self-interested, isn't always bad from the perspective of the entire economy. If you want new capacity, it needs to have money put into it to make that happen.