Ok, I think we're not really disagreeing, we're just fighting about language.
Yes if you follow the directions and pay close attention then you won't end up with burnt popcorn.
But a lot of the time the directions specifically say not to use the popcorn button, when you really should, so in that case following the directions will give you what you want but there is a much better way. When you said to actually follow the instructions, I thought you were more or less blanket agreeing with that part of the instructions too.
So I think we were talking past eachother for a bit there.
That lack of intervention is what created the conditionsCapitalism naturally moves towards monopoly. Government regulation prevents monopolies. Capitalism accumulates power. Capitalists use that power to influence the government into letting them accumulate more power, until they have enough power to remove the regulations that prevent monopolies, then the capitalists form monopolies, then we get the very situation that we're describing.