LOL! --and everyone was complaining about price gouging at the pump too!
There are some very good people in the oil business that give to charities and do volunteer work just like we do. Our goodness won't stop us from changing jobs the minute someone else offers us a promotion and double the pay becasue we need to look out for our families and that doesn't make us bad guys. So it doesn't make the oil people bad guys either.
You’re right, for a person to *make as much money as possible* if they are supporting a family, is the good and right thing to do for oneself and their family — whatever it takes to do that. However, to listen to some here, making too much money in the way of wages, at a company is a crime of sorts... LOL...
And also, to make *as much money as possible* if you own a business is also the “American Way” — no matter if the consumer has to pay double and triple the price. That’s “right” for the owner.
And if it’s a company that is a public one with stocks and many people sharing ownership in it — it’s *mandatory* (you might say “legally mandatory”) that the company *make as much money as possible* for their shareholders.
Therefore, if the general public is “looking for a break” (personally and in their own pocketbooks) with the principle of American business (workers and businesses) — to *make as much money as possible* — they better forget it — because they are *last on the list*... LOL...