A company can run itself without regard for anything but profit. That's been a winning strategy for quite a while now. There's no amount of money they can make that will prevent them being judged for it though.

No one owes a company good will.

By that rationale they should open payday loan centers in low income neighborhoods, why not?

At the point where it doesn't have "profit" in the mission statement.

> at what point is a business allowed to be a business and run itself for profit (even more than it is making now) without being “judged” for the mean stuff it has to do?

Never. The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, losing homes, filling prisons. The majority stockholders are of the CEO class. They aren't in any danger of life-impacting loss if they have a lick of financial sense. Dividends to the cronies and axe to the peasants is never going to be popular with anybody but cronies and bootlickers.

Anyone can be judged for anything.

It's always interesting that some focus more on those who speak their minds about something than the actual actions taken that are being criticized, as if the real problem is people having opinions and speaking freely about them. It feels like the root sentiment is "X can do whatever they want, but you're not allowed to do the same by saying anything about it."