What can we do about being dissatisfied, morally and practically, by the business-like tactics shown by Universities (in the US and elsewhere)?
Before this question gets closed for not being an answerable question, let me try to give some personal life advice, which might sound frivolous but is serious:
Start your own monastery.
Sure most professors care about the quality of their universities, but they also want time and energy to do their research, or they want to have some perks in their life, or they have families they need to support.  They also realize that, even if they did take over the university, most of the problems would still remain; they still wouldn't have the funding to provide the small classes and individual support and research opportunities their students need, at least if they wanted to pay themselves above minimum wage.
Forget about industry; it's an order of magnitude worse in industry, where there is no way of making enough money to survive, never mind make a profit, without lying to everyone else left and right.