Of all the people who worked on this, nobody thought it was illegal or land them in trouble? Like, how does one come up with a plan like this, sell it to their

Of all the people who worked on this, nobody thought it was illegal or land them in trouble? Like, how does one come up with a plan like this, sell it to their colleagues and see it through to completion? The level of entitlement ("laws don't apply to me" or "at most there is going to be a small fine, no big deal" etc) is mind boggling. We can't expect our corporate overlords to behave ethically, now even expecting them to behave legally is too much to ask, I guess