When I was a corporate drone, I used to catch a lot of attitude about the vision statements I wrote. Because they always started (at least the first draft, before I got "corrected") with some variation on "make money by..."

Because that is really what it is all about. And a lot of people seem to forget it, both inside and outside the company. Forgetting it outside the company leads to unwarranted trust. Forgetting it inside leads to waste and failed efforts.

It is not a fault of corporations that they are there to make money any more than it is a fault of a lion that its function is to kill. It is a fault of the population when it decides lions are cute and cuddly and ought to be kept in the house - i.e. votes Republican.