No, presumably there were just more consequences for being greedy. You could do it, but it would probably bite you later, so better not. Now, you can be greedy

No, presumably there were just more consequences for being greedy. You could do it, but it would probably bite you later, so better not. Now, you can be greedy over and over again at every decision point and it's probably fine. See: the short-term thinking of most US companies.