Buddy… I’ve got some bad news for you… almost none of these scenarios are hypothetical. They have already happened. In case you aren’t aware…

A pharma company has found a cure for cancer, but suppresses it to make money on treatment. Causing innumerable deaths.

I don’t know about a “cure” for cancer, but pre-Obamacare, depending on your luck with maintaining health insurance payments, you could be denied coverage altogether… and with Trump saying they’re going to get rid of Obamacare this time around (no McCain to save it this time), this probably will start happening again.

A pharma company has found a cure for Alzheimer’s - but suppresses it. Causing suffering.

Unless there’s a profit motive, they wouldn’t suppress it… they’d just make it so it was really expensive, or drawn out over a long time… otherwise see above.

A pharma company knows a drug treatment is ineffective for some major illness, but pushes it anyway, suppressing other research. Causing suffering.

See the set of podcast episodes of Behind the Bastards covering the “Vioxx” drug scandal - which likely killed more Americans than the entire Vietnam War.

A pharma company pushes a drug known to cause massive dependence, with insignificant benefit. Causing suffering.

See above.

A car company knows an airbag is defective, and does not fix it. Causing thousands of deaths.

Airbag company based in Tennessee tried to refuse ordered full scale recall of their faulty inflators

An airplane manufacturer creates an airplane with faulty construction, knowingly, and thousands die.

Literally Boeing right now.

A manufacturing company pollutes a town’s water, causing birth defects, general sickness.

Literally the plot of Erin Brockovich, which itself was about the real life events caused by a chemical company dumping shit nearby… also Dark Waters.

They already do almost ALL OF THIS.