Comment by standardUser

The Ford Pinto scandal was found to be a pretty clear cut case of an auto company refusing to do a recall because dealing with the expected number of injuries and deaths would be cheaper.

So the OP's perspective is accurate. It's not all just golf and nepotism.

"The evidence suggests that Ford relied, at least in part, on cost-benefit reasoning, which is an analysis in monetary terms of the expected costs and benefits of doing something."

https://philosophia.uncg.edu/phi361-matteson/module-1-why-do...