" It's legally required for any publically traded corporation to do their best to maximize profits for shareholders."
And yet its not a legal requirement of political officials to maximize the prosperity of a fair and balanced democracy. Instead, the corporate minority boards and owners can use their hordes of money to influence policy makers to enact deregulation in their favor, in spite of the needs of the many.
Obviously, ratifying laws that are designed to delude the majority with implied progressive returns, while in fact using underhanded tactics made legal via previous iterations of ratified deregulation, solely to benefit the corporate minority boards, owners and their share holders are not illegal actions.
Although, as much as those actions by corporations and their political facilitators can not be viewed as illegal activity atm. It doesn't do anything to alleviate the stench of its accumulated pho-unionized group ethos of finding better ways to extract all credits from their meat bag owners.
Just saying.
Apologies for my spelling and grammar.
All the best,
peace...