How can a natural monopoly (what ever that means) ever be a good thing? The whole point of something being a natural monopoly is that it doesn't matter if it's

How can a natural monopoly (what ever that means) ever be a good thing? The whole point of something being a natural monopoly is that it doesn't matter if it's good or bad. No matter what you do one company will tend to win it all over time. So in order to control such things the government (another natural monopoly) has to step in and put fences around the monopoly.