forgetting that the corporations are only doing what they're chartered to do: using every resource to increase wealth for their share-holders.
Corporations aren't ~allowed~ to consider "the greater good" over that profit,
Except that CEOs can do practically ANYTHING and justify it as "increasing wealth for the share-holders".
Here we go:
1) Fire everyone, sell everything, liquidate like it's 1999. This increases the bottom-line of the company and makes it easy to increase the wealth of the shareholders (effectively removing the risk of not knowing what the stock is worth, do all that liquidation and you have a definite value the stock can be compared against)
2) Go into debt, hire a shit-ton of scientists, designers, artist, whoever to invest in the product so that next year/decade they'll be able to corner the market, bring in more money, and increase wealth for the shareholders.
3) Dodge all taxes as it leaves more money for the shareholders
4) Pay all the taxes as it removes the risk of the government coming in a busting up the company, shattering the wealth of the shareholders.
5) Pissing it all away on hookers and blow. "Hey, I'm a high-powered businessman, I make you the money. Walk away, leave me in charge, and you'll get your quarterly gains (as long as the economy is still booming)."
6) Axing all of the top skill and people with connections in the business. They're just doing lines of blow. It's not like we really need that guy whose mother is running the government regulator, I'm sure she'll be professional. Removing this overhead increases wealth for the shareholders.
All of that happens and in some cases is even the smart thing to do. If you think corporations are somehow LEGALLY REQUIRED to curb-stomp you, then you have no flipping clue what happens in the business world.