Capitalism and currency as a concept have no understanding of ethics, morals or good vs. bad built into them. The responsibility of enforcing and encouraging e

Capitalism and currency as a concept have no understanding of ethics, morals or good vs. bad built into them. The responsibility of enforcing and encouraging ethical behavior is on the shoulders of the government and broader society. For example, if we take that selling people's personal information is "evil" as a given, it would not be a profitable practice if literally everyone did not accept it as a fair practice or the government could theoretically censor it completely. There would be no money to be made because potential buyers would distance themselves from it. To take it to the extreme, for example, if our culture valued something as blatantly evil and extreme as cannibalism and the government had no laws against such actions, there would unfortunately be money to be made on selling human tritip as gruesome as that is. The point is that the trend you notice of companies profiting from "evil" actions (I agree with this) is more a reflection of the current status of society, our value system, and the government than it is of capitalism or business. If we all were purely "good", the nature of what is profitable would be quite different.