"Dave" wrote
Nice populist rhetoric, but there's no such thing as a "drug company"
aside
from its people, .....

It's not so much a question of ethical vs unethical, it is what one's ethics
are. Las Vegas was a nice place to visit when "The Mob" ran the casinos. I
could stay in a nice hotel, enjoy a couple top entertainers' shows, and eat
like a king for peanuts so long as a budgeted my gambling. But then we
replaced the mobsters with honest businessmen - beancounters devoted to
squeeing every cent of profit out of every visitor. Used to be you could
play 5 nickles and get 3 back, sometimes winning a jackpot. Oh yes, the
house would get all you were willing to play, but they were patient and let
you have fun giving it to them. Not so the beancounters.

Sadly, the same is true of most US companies. If you own a company you run
it according to your own ethics. If you run a company for somebody else
then you maximize his profits even if that means some people must go without
the medicines they need. That's why "companies" often lack any sense of
ethics.