It's wild how much stuff nowadays is people/bad actors just doing things and expecting nobody to call them out. Like, the whole patent troll "industry" is just abusing the law, hoping people don't stop them.
It's the lawyers. They ran out of actual lawsuits, so they're inventing them. They either find a wheelchair-bound person to sue you because your shop is in a historic building and you never bothered to spend tens of thousands on making it ADA compliant, or they sue you because your website doesn't pass ADA compliance[1] (hey, does HN pass ADA compliance? I have an idea...), or they find[2] a couple guys selling illegal truck parts and try to sue them for tens of millions.
I think because what predominates is the notion that if it makes money it is good. If it makes a lot of money, then it is very good.
If it claims moral superiority, that's fine and well, but if it doesn't make as much money then it doesn't deserve to live.
If you say anything to the contrary, you are "irrational", perhaps worse.
Maybe folks should start calling eachother out?