[kolinko]

Actually, private companies were killing people for profits since always. The whole concept of corporations was iirc created because private people didn't want to be accountable for ships that sank and killed the sailors.

Even now, private companies killing people is nothing unusual. Think oil rigs, or airplanes. Sure - a spaceship exploding and killing the crew is quite spectacular, but when you build a company like SpaceX, you build it with the knowledge that something like this will happen.

With every manned flight, you have the procedures in place for the catastrophic failure, and when it happens, you execute "Plan Red". Nobody is running around screaming. At least I'd like to think so :)