But even if she did exactly what she said she'd do (which is not the case) - even if the seller and the buyer agreed on the price and both parties received exactly what is expected... does that make everything ok? Just because you have the right to charge anything you want for your services does not mean you're not a selfish psychopathic manipulator. Even if Sylvia was not lying about what she offers, she still charges $700 per hour for something that is very easy for her to do and she knows that people who lost loved ones will pay almost anything to get any hint of information about them. So why does she charge so much? Because, given the situation, she can! Another person doing the same thing can do it for free or very little cost because they actually care about others. But she chose to take advantage of the situation for her own greed.
Just because you can do something and are not lying about it, doesn't mean it's not a selfish and evil thing to do. Lies and deception are not evil in and of themselves- it's all in why you lie and the context of the situation. Lying to the tyrranical oppressors to protect your resistance movement is service to others! So deception, in and of itself, does not make something good or bad. And charging $700 for what she charges and doing what she does with that money - well regardless of whether it was under false pretenses or not - it is clearly aimed at self-gratification and taking advantage of the situation, of the buyer, and there are many other ways to manipulate someone besides deception, as is apparent from various tactics the pathocracy uses to get people to "get in line" or "pay up".
If I am a very famous movie star I can just stand in the middle of the street and charge $100 for people to shake my hand. I bet I can get tons of people who idolize me to agree and gladly do it, many will be willing to pay a lot more than that if I chose to charge even more. But I'm clearly being a self-obsessed manipulative bastard taking advantage of the situation, even if I'm not deceiving the customer about what they're getting. And I clearly do not care about the people, I just want money - I'm not in it to make people happy even if at the surface, they are happy to be able to shake my hand even if they have to dish out tons of money for it. Similarly, for-profit corporations are not in it to make people happy - their ONLY goal is profit, and they know that to do that they have to offer a service. But the goal is not to offer the service which they think will serve humanity, that's just a sacrifice they had to make in order to get what they want - profit. And if they can find a way to charge more, they will, and do - why? Because they can, and their ability to maximize their profit is the only thing that stands in their way of raising the price - not any sort of humanitarian concerns or desire to help the world or anyone else. That's why companies charge through the roof when they are a monopoly and don't have competition - they charge exactly as much as people are willing to pay. If Sylvia could charge a million dollars per hour, she most certainly would.
On the other hand, if Laura could charge a million for her books - she still wouldn't charge a penny over what she absolutely needs to continue her work. Why? Because her aim is to serve humanity, Sylvia's aim is self-aggrandizement and acquisition of wealth. Both offer services and charge for them, and even if both were completely honest about the service, there is still a world of difference between them. Ok I'm out of analogies lol.