It's simply not profitable to do the job so well. Abundance (blowing past the demand curve, if you like) just isn't rewarded under ccapitalism. There's plenty

It's simply not profitable to do the job so well. Abundance (blowing past the demand curve, if you like) just isn't rewarded under ccapitalism. There's plenty of more specific stories worth telling, but for the big picture around much such infrastructure work, this is the elephant in the room.