In a perfect world, these endeavors would be provided by individuals or groups of individuals who have the best interests of our entire world in mind. Unfortunately, more and more people and organizations who identify themselves as supporting capitalism have placed short-sighted self-interest above the quality of their product, the well-being of the people involved in creating it, and the overall health of society and the world. I don't feel that these people are actually following capitalism. Instead, they follow an economic system that emphasizes avarice, suffering, and dishonesty; a system that I call "miserism."
Don't bother looking it up; as an economic system, this blog is the first place that it is mentioned. While the underlying idea of investing capital with the intention of receiving compensation for that investment remains true, in the case of miserism the prevailing method of doing so involves making cuts at other people's expense (whether this includes cutting the wages or benefits of workers or reducing the quality of the product) in the hope of profiting for oneself.
A miser, like Scrooge from A Christmas Carol, is person who cuts expenses to an extreme in an effort to hoard wealth. Often, misers are stingy in all aspects of life, to the point that they truly become miserable, living a wretched life. However, in this case, there are beneficiaries to miserism. While they have made life wretched for others, they rarely live such terrible lives themselves. They profit from the misery of others without suffering from the consequences of their decisions and actions.
While I know that this kind of miserism has been around for as long as humans have tracked wealth, the resurgence of miserism in current economics under the guise of "good business" has been truly disturbing. Somehow, the public thinks that losing benefits, pensions, insurance, and wages are all part of this "good business," not realizing that they are no longer part of a capitalistic system, but a miseristic (again, my own term) one.