Capital eschews no profit, or very small profit, just as Nature was formerly
    said to abhor a vacuum. With adequate profit, capital is very bold. A certain
    10 per cent. will ensure its employment anywhere; 20 per cent. certain will
    produce eagerness; 50 per cent., positive audacity; 100 per cent. will make it
    ready to trample on all human laws; 300 per cent., and there is not a crime at
    which it will scruple, nor a risk it will not run, even to the chance of its
    owner being hanged. If turbulence and strife will bring a profit, it will freely
    encourage both. Smuggling and the slave-trade have amply proved all that is
    here stated.

We today can also add crypto schemes and mass surveillance to the examples.

And mind you, VC are people who are both pretty good at earning money and also eager for even more money. That's how they got to where they are, after all, not necessarily by being virtuous (over a certain minimally required amount, or a social signaling of possessing such an amount).