[chronciger]

> Why do you think companies would prefer to make less profit here?

Because if you make too much profit, you get regulated by government.

[9rx]

It's not the 1980s anymore. If you make too much profit nowadays you pull a John Deere and start crying to government that your customers aren't profitable enough (because you siphoned off all of their profit) and need a bailout so that they can pay even more for your product in the future.