Companies are not alive. The human beings running Intuit are lobbying for the continued existence of an unnecessary and harmful organization. That is unethical/

Companies are not alive. The human beings running Intuit are lobbying for the continued existence of an unnecessary and harmful organization. That is unethical/immoral/evil behavior. Accepting their bribes is also evil behavior. There's no need to pick the "real villains", everyone involved is a villain. It's true that some employees would be hurt if Intuit went out of business, but paying someone doesn't magically make their behavior acceptable. You can't pay someone to harass people on the street and then say "sorry, I can't stop or my harasser will lose their income, the real villains here are the police for letting me do this."