Not really. They’re not indifferent at all. In reality they act like narcissistic and like psychopathic humans. I watched a documentary years ago exploring that and talking with psychologists about symptoms and they agreed that they behave like psychopaths. And don’t forget that they are run by humans.

Corporations:

• Can buy and sell stuff
• Can do evil things without consequences (an employee can pay the consequences but the company will keep going).
• They have no remorse or empathy.
• Can manipulate to reach their goals, no matter who (from media to politics to countries).
• Whenever somebody at the top can’t reach an economical goal, that person is fired and replaced by one who can. It’s like a hive evil mind.
• Goal #1 is always money (absolute selfish and egomaniac), no matter what or who.

By design they only care about money, they don’t care about anything else.

That is cartoon book clear definition of evil. No empathy, clear goal, willing to do anything to reach that goal - yep that is evil.

Everything after your first sentence described evil.

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They are indifferent

They only care about money

They can't be both, and since the latter claim is the correct one, then it also supports the claim that they are evil. Because since we know that their sole and primary concern is money, then we also know to which extent they will go to get that money.

We need good guys with money to stop the bad guys with money

Not being outright malicious but ending up doing malicious things makes this distinction pretty pointless.

Tell that to Comcast...

They are the stereotypical paper clip AI that will drain our blood to extract its iron content for more paperclips. Except it wants money.

Most evil is caused by indifference though.

Someone who hates people can be talked to and potentially can change.

Someone who's indifferent will use hatred as a tool to control people. When this tactic is successful, and indifferent person can't be swayed from using it, because it works.

I mean if it were proven that google's algorithms are encouraging violence, what would an indifferent person do? They'd ask, "is the algorithm making money?" And if the answer is yes, they would make no change to the algorithm. Because they are indifferent to the evil that they are causing.

Correct in the sense that it's the incentive scheme, i.e., capitalism (supported by state power, e.g., by enshrining the entity of a corporation and then enforcing its protection) that is the more meaningful, or at least actionable, cause of these behaviors.

While those incentive schemes are in place, ascribing too much agency to corporations themselves, i.e., calling them evil, is not particularly effective as it's not going to change the underlying incentives.