The execs at these companies that are 'selling out' to the government just care about the bottom line(and their paychecks) while they are at their companies. The decisions they are making won't destroy their companies/industries until they are long gone.
I know these “deals” have been being made since the beginning of time. But they were on the QT. They knew the public would frown on these kind of “Godfather” deals.
Now, it's out in the open...and nobody bats an eye that it is wrong.
So each “ethics line” we cross will be decimated.
As a society, I fear we are sunk.