Ethics pose an enormous problem for capitalism. There are two ways to get rich — innovation and exploitation. Innovation is really difficult, so most robber barons turn to exploitation.

However, stealing labor and resources from other people runs up against the natural human tendency for empathy. Then Adam Smith came along at a moment when Scotland was getting rich from slave-grown tobacco in the colonies and assured everyone that they didn't need to worry about ethics anymore, "the invisible hand of the market" solved the problem of distribution better than any government and distribution is almost a proxy for ethics (it's not, but that was the argument). 'So go on with your greedy self, it's actually ethical!' And that's the system that we've lived under for the last 250 years.

One of the fascinating things about the current iatrogenocide is that capital figured out how to capture innovation too. They realized that if they owned the knowledge production process in science and medicine they could just fake everything and get rich because no one would check their work. Faking innovation has a much higher return on investment than actual innovation which is very difficult. And then capital realized that chronic illness is a goldmine and so they started poisoning the entire population with their junk science products as well.

The job of the D.C. crowd is to grease the wheels for capitalism so they get really mad at anyone who points out that our system, especially science and medicine, is completely unethical. They want to make ethics disappear as a category so that their benefactors can go back to fake innovation and profitable exploitation.