Companies can focus on providing service to their paying customers and (for the most part) ignore everyone else. Governments, on the other hand, have to govern

Companies can focus on providing service to their paying customers and (for the most part) ignore everyone else. Governments, on the other hand, have to govern over everyone. As a society (through our group decision-making process, politics), we decided everyone should have access to education, as it's massively beneficial to have an educated workforce and the unlocked positive-sum economic opportunities significantly reduce the number of people who elect (or are stuck with) zero-sum criminal opportunities (and these people are very expensive to have to manage). We could leave a lot of the country without usable access to the internet, but from the start we decided it's better that everyone be connected (our Constitution explicitly authorizes Congress to establish post offices and post roads). And thanks to our political system and relatively high degree of openness, we have been able to discover and patch a lot of the abuses of the system that motivate you to prefer private options.