You ignoring the mistreatment of players and cheapness is exactly why it happened?
Or his years of penny pinching on employees and mistreatment.
As it turns out, all of those are myths. Comiskey was paying players the going rate or higher (we know this because we have the players' contracts and contemporary team payroll figures), and as far as I am aware, there is no contemporary documentary evidence for stories like the laundry bill; the Cicotte 30 win bonus story is total bollocks, too (we know this from the box scores).
The conspiracy happened because the players got greedy, didn't think they'd get caught, and didn't think they'd lose out of they were caught, either. Then, after they actually suffered some consequences for their actions, they spent the rest of their lives lying about it (we know this because we have the grand jury testimony - Jackson in particular blatantly perjured himself in his 1923 lawsuit against the White Sox - and trial transcripts from both the 1921 fraud trial and the 1923 Jackson lawduit, as well as dozens of contemporary and post-scandal interviews).