You would prefer that $billions be managed by the same snakes in suits who destroy the environment, market products that give people lung cancer, etc.?
In EA, the ends always justify the means, so that includes doing any or all of the things you mention if it achieves some ideological goal.
The only person I've seen advocate "ends justify the means" in this discussion is someone criticizing Toner: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38373319