Tradeoffs become multi-arm as you go up the chain. For instance, complying with the letter of the law at great engineering, operational and product UX expense,

Tradeoffs become multi-arm as you go up the chain. For instance, complying with the letter of the law at great engineering, operational and product UX expense, vs cutting corners to maintain a smooth UX, low operational overhead, and straightforward maintainable systems. In todays world no one is able to be experts in all those considerations. Leadership must make apples-to-oranges tradeoffs all day long, and they must rely on communication and maturity to navigate the cascading inputs of these choices. What is possible to execute on cross-functionally, in what timeline, and what are the externalities of different tradeoffs? These are fiendishly difficult to navigate, so generally financial metrics will serve as the tiebreaker, and even then it's based on a lot of guesswork and proposals made up by self-interested internal parties over-representing an uncertain outcome. It's no surprise that the really big ethical concerns get lost in the shuffle—there's simply no system of checks and balances on ethics with anywhere near the effectiveness of that imparted by the incentives corporate capitalism bolstered by individual self-interest (note I avoid the word greed here since the incentives aare chained all the way down to individuals which no one would consider well-off enough to be labeled "greedy").