You're rewriting history. Take the railroads. Railroads that were working with the government made transcontinental tracks first. The first private one came aft

You're rewriting history. Take the railroads. Railroads that were working with the government made transcontinental tracks first. The first private one came after. Laissez faire economics didn't get there first and create a bunch of monopolies, they came by and large from corrupt politicians being bribed to pass laws to support them. (Politicians were really corrupt back then. For example they would commonly threaten to pass nasty laws to mess up railroads just to get bribed to stop. It's amazing how bad it was, and how far we've come that today's politicians aren't so corrupt like that (partly the change is due to technology making it harder to hide what you do)).