values

Takata found a way to save a buck 
replacing airbags' sodium azide.
The boardroom cheered; they couldn't give a fuck
'til courts had proved how many people died.
Shareholders' profit's not the only good
a corporation ought to optimize.
As "persons" they must share our neighborhood
and "good" is what has value in our eyes.
Milt Friedman ran Chicago off the rails
defining "ethics" he could quantitate.
But when executives serve time in jail
society may re-evaluate.
Amoral spreadsheets just provide a tool;
to idolize them, one would be a fool.