There is physical abuse, mental abuse — and we can even think about what spiritual abuse might be.
Slavery is an abuse. Genocide is an abuse. For abuse to exist, there must be someone who abuses and someone who is abused. There is an inequality of power — physical, economic, or otherwise. When someone produces milk and, instead of trying to create a better product for the consumer, tries to maximise profit, the focus is no longer on doing something good. The focus is disguised, but what lies behind it is greed.
The idea of capitalism as competition to offer the consumer the best product may be just an illusion — marketing, a fiction.
When there is greed, you can create different tiers of quality — but as the consumer also wants to maximise what their money buys, and the majority have little, they will choose the cheapest option of minimum acceptable quality. And so you become willing to create rubbish.
When there is greed, you may be willing to do immoral things — such as selling below cost until you bankrupt your competition, then recover your losses and fix an unjust price. When there is greed, there is abuse.






