Well, I can see where you get that from what I wrote. I didn’t mean it quite like that, so allow me to clarify:

I don’t think they are inherently ethical, but they were young and naive with good intentions (Do No Evil, and all that). The position they put forward is ethical. But that youthful naivety is what the less-ethical (though still quite intelligent, as you point out) take advantage of.

Further, again as you said, greed is at the root of it.

Hopefully that clarifies my point?