You have power but so do a lot of other people. You use your power to serve your best interests, but people with equal or greater power are also acting in their best interests and sometimes that means your power and their power clashes.

When that happens, you don’t always get the result you want, but maybe neither of you gets the results you want. Maybe what ends up happening is some kind of canceling out of your respective powers.

If the power dynamics in the market are diverse enough, people with competing interests and ideologies have various forms of power, then this will happen more often than not and you’ll see power canceling out power more often than you see power effecting the influence of the people that wield it.