Great post, but:

While the idea of a corporate obligation to maximize profits is nonsense

Fisciary duty + everything they say after really disproves that opener to the paragraph. Fisciary duty is the forced incentive that shaves away all else.

nevertheless generally speaking behaviours which cause you to make more money will be tolerated and behaviours which cause you to make less won’t. You can add other constraints, such as morality and good taste, but generally those constraints will be rubbed away at the edges by the structure of your incentives.