I would invite you to reconsider your position, at least as it relates to utilities. In the early, "wild west" days of utilities, when utilities were just begin

I would invite you to reconsider your position, at least as it relates to utilities. In the early, "wild west" days of utilities, when utilities were just beginning to be a thing, there was a large surge of competition to provide electricity and gas in the major cities. It was only after a lot of lobbying that monopolies were formed to push out the competition. See "Myth of the Natural Monopoly" by Thomas DiLorenzo https://mises.org/system/tdf/rae9_2_3_3.pdf?file=1&type=document https://mises.org/system/tdf/rae9_2_3_3.pdf?file=1&type=docu...