My experience has been that once the mercenary ethics has been established, it is not so much that people do not care, which would be bad enough, it also is that they care a lot about number one, and will push in every possible way towards individual profit a the expense of the collective. The amount of wilful obfuscation and self-interest-maximizing collusion and grift severely weakens the host. Then comes private equity to suck the carcass dry.