Business is conducted between people, and the fact that it is organized as an entity does not dissolve the moral obligations that exist between people. The pressure to maximize return — to cut the corner that is unlikely to be inspected, to extract the wage that the worker has no power to refuse — is real and structural, which makes it more important to examine, not less. Reason applied to commerce asks the same questions it asks everywhere: what do you owe, and to whom?
Each step builds on the last.