This has been the way Google has worked from the beginning. Stories like this need to be shouted from the rooftops every time they happen, just to warn people. Google got to where they are today by building absolutely everything with a mind to scale, and justice doesn't scale.
Was the greatest trick that Page, Brin, and Schmidt ever pulled, convincing the world that they don't exist?
No, that's ridiculous. There are real people making real fortunes here. If they're not ethical, it doesn't take a conspiracy theorist to point that out.
You haven't played it long enough to see how it becomes the paperclip maximizer, I posted the link to the game because everyone can find the Wikipedia link.
i can and did look it up, since i hadn't heard of it before. however, that doesn't answer the question as to what the commenter meant with their comment in the context of my reply. i meant "that" as in their whole comment in context.