I agree, and this is probably the furthest Left position I support.
Infrastructure monopolies are kinda the point of the government. You can't have competing electrical grids any more than you could have competing road/rail systems, competing electromagnetic spectrum, competing gas/water delivery etc. These things take up serious physical space and pretty much need to be universally accessible to be useful, so you regulate them via government.
What you can have is competing producers, ie private power plants or ISPs delivering service using government infrastructure, private shipping and transport using government roads
The problem that tends to arise is the government reaches too far, say with health care and education, and tries to regulate themselves a totally unnecessary monopoly.
I agree, and this is probably the furthest Left position I support.
Infrastructure monopolies are kinda the point of the government. You can't have competing electrical grids any more than you could have competing road/rail systems, competing electromagnetic spectrum, competing gas/water delivery etc. These things take up serious physical space and pretty much need to be universally accessible to be useful, so you regulate them via government.
What you can have is competing producers, ie private power plants or ISPs delivering service using government infrastructure, private shipping and transport using government roads
The problem that tends to arise is the government reaches too far, say with health care and education, and tries to regulate themselves a totally unnecessary monopoly.