Musk has a track record of giving absolutely no fucks about safety or regulations unless forced to.
While he is a particularly egregious and blatant example, there are countless examples of other corporations generating their profits by doing exactly the same level of ignoring safety, environmental damage, and other harms ti society in their single-minded pursuit of ever inreasing profits.
Internalize the profits and externalize the costs has been a business mantra for centuries.