When did "profit" equate to "endless unrestrained amoral growth ethic turning human society into the control theory equivalent of a cancer cell" in the first place?
If a nice looking quarterly report is set as the single overriding goal above all other goals, it will by definition override all other goals, time horizons and externalities.
When finance abstracted Capital to the point that Wall Street became an end onto itself, and every justification for amoral financial behavior was levied as fiduciary responsibility, that is when US Business became the equivalent of an out of control Cancer. The US American form of capitalism is an exploitative Ponzi scheme, which is ironic considering the Christianity that is supposed to be afloat. In a more mature and moral society Capitalism would not be the Jack Booted Thug we have manifested. Plain fact: the human race is not as mature as it thinks it is.
Nobody cares about "fiduciary responsibility" in this case. CEOs are not required to maximize profit for their shareholders. If they'll go right ahead and say that in public, you can safely say the lawyers aren't warning them about it.
