I understand you moral objection in the real world, however in Automation the player agent is not that well defined, your main objective is to sell cars, not enlarge your personal fortune. I still think there should be some way to recover control of the company if you wish, maybe not buybacks
but maybe going back to being a private company. Now you can argue that the money would be better spent on R/D and you would probably be correct, but it might be fun to let the player shoot himself in the foot too.