Isn't this simply because the US tries to run everything as a company or takes economics and legal above everything else? You can't do anything unless you make

Isn't this simply because the US tries to run everything as a company or takes economics and legal above everything else? You can't do anything unless you make a profit or are completely legally covered (or can completely sue something/something out of existence). It's that the US runs on, and as soon as you get near something that doesn't work that way (i.e. infrastructure - a road needs to be good, it doesn't need to be cheap or legally covered) or that can't work that way (humans and health don't bend to the rules of law or economics) you're going to have a really bad time.