>> Its obligation is to its owners and not to society.

This isn't true at all. It has an obligation to follow the law of the society it operates in, even if that results in lower profits.

I agree with you. It has to follow the rules.

Unfortunately the society this company operates in is highly Machiavellian and can’t improve because people are too busy hating each other and also the rules it does have aren’t being enforced very well and finally, this type of lobbying is part of the culture in the US, it’s so expected it’d be weird if they didn’t do it.

Yeah, we have a wrong conception. It's fine, society often has wrong conceptions. We are just dead wrong about ruthless capitalism. A company is a custodian of a good society, it has responsibilities that far exceed profit.