Internal incentives not overall profitability drive such behavior. An executive can point to a profit stream and suggest that’s beneficial to the company while

Internal incentives not overall profitability drive such behavior. An executive can point to a profit stream and suggest that’s beneficial to the company while ignoring externalities that cost the company 5x as much. Nobody inside has complete knowledge if someone was a good idea or not so the appearance of benefit often replaces the search for actual benefit.