Take, for example, the opioid manufacturers that KNOWINGLY created and exploited the opioid epidemic that decimated 'Trump country'...

The filing by plaintiffs depict some drug company employees as driven by profits and undeterred by the knowledge that their products were wreaking havoc across the country. The defendants’ response to the motion is due July 31.

In January 2009, Borelli told Cochrane in another email that 1,200 bottles of oxycodone 30 mg tablets had been shipped.

“Keep ’em comin’!” Cochrane responded. “Flyin’ out of there. It’s like people are addicted to these things or something. Oh, wait, people are. . .”

Borelli responded: “Just like Doritos keep eating. We’ll make more.”

Borelli and Cochrane did not return calls for comment Friday night.

This is just one example among countless others- only remarkable in its carelessness and open arrogance. This wasn't just a couple of bad apples, this was institutional, the intentional destruction of millions of lives, of entire communities. All that mattered is that it made the corporations billions and increased shareholder wealth- the damage that it did to the community only mattered as a metric of their success in market saturation.

Three companies distributed nearly half of the pills: McKesson with 14.1 billion, Walgreens with 12.6 billion and Cardinal Health with 10.7 billion. The leading manufacturer was Mallinckrodt’s SpecGx with nearly 28.9 billion pills, or nearly 38 percent of the market.

The states that received the highest concentrations of pills per person per year were: West Virginia with 66.5, Kentucky with 63.3, South Carolina with 58, Tennessee with 57.7 and Nevada with 54.7. West Virginia also had the highest opioid death rate during this period.

Rural areas were hit particularly hard: Norton, Va., with 306 pills per person; Martinsville, Va., with 242; Mingo County, W.Va., with 203; and Perry County, Ky., with 175.

In that time, the companies distributed enough pills to supply every adult and child in the country with 36 each year.

It happens over and over- car companies intentionally selling dangerously defective cars and covering it up, cigarette companies engaging in a calculated effort to cover up the health impact of their product, oil companies engaging in a campaign to bury climate change science with lies...

Unrestrained capitalism will always result in evil, because it will preferentially reward evil people. This is precisely why conservatives want to destroy anything that might serve to restrain capitalism.