Up here in Canada, we've seen vet clinics rapidly go corporate in the last couple of decades. Even ignoring prices, the degradation in the quality of care offered is stark. Vets working for corporate clinics are heavily micromanaged. They get less time per animal, are pressured into certain diagnoses and prescriptions, etc.. A lot of us now refuse to take our pets to clinics that aren't owned by the vets working there. Unfortunately, in many places there aren't a lot of options.
To put humans through this kind of misaligned system is the stuff of nightmares.
I would say there’s nothing humane about this, but there’s a certain section of the population who read too much Ayn Rand at too impressionable an age, or saw Wolf of Wall Street as aspirational, that very much rationalize their own behavior as natural.
To put humans through this kind of misaligned system is the stuff of nightmares.