One More Comment About illegal Profit

Very often it is business that is labeled a profiteer. Business is not a monolithic institution with its corporate office located in some large municipality, making decisions without people. Business is only a word to describe a certain kind of people behavior. Business is people. Consequently, if a company is engaged in any illegal activity, it is the people within the company who are committing a crime.

As a group, businesspeople are no better and no worse than any other group of people, including physicians, educators, and religious leaders. The company that makes a profit does so, among other things, because the people working for it are operating within the law. The act of making a profit is perfectly legal. It is criminal when a company makes a profit by violating the law.