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If a product is successful enough to become a genericized trademark I'd say that's pretty much the free market in operation right there.
You could claim any monopoly is justified, but there's such a thing as too much capitalism. When market leaders become self-perpetuating machines to the exclusion and suppression of any and all competition, intervention is necessary to restore the honesty of the system. This is why we have antitrust laws, and also why anyone who refers to every soda as "Coke" requires swift and decisive reëducation (or maybe just education in the first place).
If a monopoly has been gained or is sustained through means other than fair competition then I wholly agree. If a monopoly is gained or sustained because the company in question provides the best X at the best price, then they have every right to it.

However quite aside from that I entirely agree that people who call soda "coke" (Or "pop" for that matter) should be sent to the camps.