What did Thomas Dunning write almost 200 years ago?:
"...Capital eschews no profit, or very small profit, just as Nature was formerly said to abhor a vacuum. With adequate profit, capital is very bold. A certain 10 per cent. will ensure its employment anywhere; 20 per cent. certain will produce eagerness; 50 per cent., positive audacity; 100 per cent. will make it ready to trample on all human laws; 300 per cent., and there is not a crime at which it will scruple, nor a risk it will not run, even to the chance of its owner being hunger. If turbulence and strife will bring a profit, it will freely encourage both. Smuggling and the slave-trade have amply proved all that is stated here."
When have capital owners acted differently? Most of them?
The system and laws are built as if the majority of the population and business are respectable, but what we see every day, throughout our lives, completely refutes this axiom.
Only the strictest control and the inevitability of punishment for misconduct, especially by large businesses and those who can influence the opinions and choices of the majority, can force them to act within a conscientious framework.
Once evil is allowed to germinate in one place, it metastasizes everywhere. This is a continuous struggle between civil activists and dishonest people and the structures they created. Once this layer disappears or becomes critically small, insufficient to maintain sufficient pressure on the bad layer of the population and business, politicians, and it's all over from the point of view of the development of civilization. And this layer of people has recently been carefully weeded out by villains of all stripes in all countries, with the indifferent observation of the majority of the population...
Apple has continually proven that it is a dishonest company at the management level. Like Intel, like Google, like most everyone else.