Ok, so first off happy thanksgiving. I'm drunk at this point so forgive my probable incoherence. while there's some validity in the notion that philanthropists

Ok, so first off happy thanksgiving. I'm drunk at this point so forgive my probable incoherence. while there's some validity in the notion that philanthropists do good occasionally, a better question is would their good more effective than a state solution? I don't have a ton of evidence on hand right now, but highways, the whole new deal america stuff pretty clearly did more for infrastructure than any philanthropist. In the terms of stuff like the gates foundation, at the end of the day I'm a utilitarian. They do good I'm happy. All I'm sayin is a more egalitarian state might have achieved the goal quicker had they any rich guys' will to solve it. At the end of the day I don't have the evidence off hand but everything I've read points to the state as the source of modern amenities but admittedly I'm biased towards tech and leftism and I'm no expert. I haven't exactly read ayn rand. I've read stuff like pikkety and sunkara. In the cases where billionaires do good I ask, Couldn't a state with that same will do more?