Malice is just the intention to do evil, it depends what you categorize as evil. If the bar is "primarily intending to hurt other people", then I would agree t

Malice is just the intention to do evil, it depends what you categorize as evil. If the bar is "primarily intending to hurt other people", then I would agree this wouldn't qualify. If the bar is "primarily intending to enrich oneself, knowing that enrichment comes exclusively from hurting other people", we hit that one.