Surely those bad actors were motivated by profits? The shareholders might not have voted for a "profits over safety" motion but the entire system created the i

Surely those bad actors were motivated by profits? The shareholders might not have voted for a "profits over safety" motion but the entire system created the incentives that led to bad actors acquiring their positions and doing bad stuff. And the system here is shareholder focused capitalism. Although I agree this could happen in other economic system too, in a communist system it could be simply an order from above for example.