This system exists because of government intervention in the marketplace. This is what amazes me about watching presidential debates, career politicians bitching about our current system, which they created, and the answer is always more government intrusion into the marketplace.
Irish you say it’s taking unethical advantage of the system, I would maintain it would be cheating the shareholders if businesses didn’t take every advantage of law to squeeze out all the profit they could. In 2016 all the pols wanted to bash Trump over this very issue, and he was playing by the rules they made.