Ford Pintos exploded way to easily. Ford chose not to fix it because it would cost them $11 per car. It was later revealed that Ford presented flawed data and bad math to hide even cheaper options to fix the Pinto.

In the modern world people can choose obvious evil choices because it makes them money, but because the damage is spread across the entire world and only slightly makes peoples lives worse it is ignored. Our laws are setup for a world like this. But there needs to be then same sort of legal incentives to keep people in line at this scale. Where if your choice results in one million human years wasted/made worse, society sure a shit is going to punish you hard because it benefits society to not waste one million human years.