The "association" is that they have the ame motive, and intent. So if they look "guilty" to you, I think you should be questioning that motive and intent. Not trying to mislabel and dismiss them, as you are trying to do.
Do you wander around berating supermarkets for greed because you find they have items priced more than one supermarket you have found ? Are these supermarkets consumed by greed and avarice ?
Yes, they are. They exist to take as much money from people as they can get, while diving as little in return as they can get away with giving, regardless of how that effects the people they are taking the money from. And if you don't think that's why they exist, you are a fool. They are completely controlled by their capital investors, and their capital investors have only ONE goal: to gain the greatest return on the capital they've invested in the business enterprise. To that end, they want to get as much from their employees as they can possibly get, while giving back as little in return as they can possibly give. Just as they want to get as much from their clients as they can possibly get, while giving as little in return as they can possibly give. And they have meetings in board rooms every single day to discuss new ways of doing exactly that. And they give big bonuses to their general managers to reward them for figuring out new way to do exactly that.
How about car dealers, they are real ******** because they sell a car to someone for more than the dealer across town is selling the same car. And sin of sins, joe accepts their price, and pays them, while Bill negotiates and gets the same car for less, who is the greedy SOB then?
You are, of course, still trying hard to miss the point. The point being that the capitalist system is completely controlled by the idea that we must all compete with each other in an effort to exploit each other's ignorance, misfortune, circumstances, and anything else we can possibly exploit, to take as much money from each other as we can get. That greed and exploitation is "normal commerce", and that being good at is it some sort of virtue that deserves to be rewarded with excessive wealth and power.
Get real, laws exist to make society safe, thatś why there are laws about food, and drugs, and other things.
Safe from what? Why do we need to be protected from each other if greed and exploitation are such virtuous commercial motives, as you seem to believe?
Your jihad against what you label greed is nonsensical and only has two solutions, humanity as a perfect entity, or a government oppressing everyone to eliminate the laws of supply and demand.
So, you figure that because we humans are not perfect, and cannot be free of greed, we should then embrace our ugliest and most harmful inclinations, and reward them, systematically? Is this your logic, here?
Economic freedom is free, you choose where to spend your money on what.
When we have to choose between one greedy seller, and another greedy seller, both of whom intend to take as much as they can possibly get from us while giving as little as they can possibly give in return, we are not really "free" at all. We are being enslaved by greed, and it's desire to exploit us to death, quite literally. And when the sellers all have this same motive, the theory that somehow competition between them magically mitigates their intent to take everything we have and give us as little as possible in return is insanely delusional.