Star Trek lego?

Yeah... It does sound like I'm mad at them, doesn't it? Not my intention, they were obviously outcompeted. Ho hum.

Outside of standard “capitalism bad” explanations, like have they actually done bad things?

I mean, there's a difference in having to do some things because we so live in a capitalist society and that's how our market economy works and exploiting the ever living shit out of the system.

Other companies make products and sell the, and to do that sustainable they have to sell stuff for money. They sometimes also have to protect their trademark with copyright laws and such.

Lego however goes beyond that. Put aside their sub par quality in comparison to their premium prices. Lego has in the past abused copyright and trademark law to bully smaller competitors, for example sue competitors for selling minifigures that do not look similar to Lego's own, then had the german customs authority seize shipments to a store because that store has products by those competitors in stock even though the competitors already took out the minifigures for the european market. Also, Lego sued another, tiny store over it's logo, because that store's logo contained a brick (but was completely dissimilar to Lego's own logo).
And Lego always tries to publicly justify such behavior with 'concerns for customers' safety' while buying their parts from the same Chinese factories as most of their competitors.

I find that unethical enough to label them evil and not buy new Lego for my niece's presents.