> Water, electricity, phone services (and other communication), roads These are all natural monopolies due to the limitations of public infrastructure. Such na

> Water, electricity, phone services (and other communication), roads These are all natural monopolies due to the limitations of public infrastructure. Such natural monopolies don't necessarily exist for goods/services like food, clothing, and medicine (most notably, over-the-counter generic medicine). Communication is largely left to the market, rather than government coordination/pricing. > but even there I think there's room for a government foodbank/clothes bank style option. Either that, or just providing the poor with money to buy food at market-rates, i.e. food stamps.