“…somebody else will.”
This is a great excuse for racing to the bottom.
Corporations with power go ahead and take advantage of customers. “Well, if we don’t do it, a competitor will.”
The public markets don’t require companies to throw out their principles to succeed. In fact, they reward companies that do the opposite.
People exploit vulnerabilities in systems, or cut a little close to one edge or another. Because, after all, it’s a competitive world, and if they don’t, someone else will.
Not really.
Human culture has a long history of standards being set by people who refuse this line of reasoning. And as a result of these standards, somebody else doesn’t.