I think any unethical company deserves to be given a run for its money by ethical competition. I see nothing ethical about letting certain industries be dominated by crooks who don't care about the damage they do to society, the environment, etc., and who care about nothing but their own selfish profit.
In any industry which is hurting tons of people (example: lenders who charge excessively high interest and fees) where there are no good alternatives available, then, I think some ethical, good people should step in and create some good alternatives which will treat the customers well and fairly.
Or, for another example - someone could manufacture an environmentally-friendly version of a certain type of product, thereby placing themselves into competition with manufacturers of environmentally-destructive versions of that product.
I doubt such competition is likely to even harm many unethical companies - I'm guessing the unethical companies would simply adapt themselves to the situation by cleaning up their act to an extent and being a little nicer to their customers, or more environmentally friendly, etc., so they don't keep losing tons of customers to the ethical, fair companies.
So, you wouldn't even have to completely "crush" the unethical competition in order to have a positive, uplifting effect on whatever industry you wanted to raise the ethical standards of.
Best wishes,
Apollia
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