Some things are just so big that it is unlikely a company or startup can start and finish. Society really cannot function without both public and private contri

Some things are just so big that it is unlikely a company or startup can start and finish. Society really cannot function without both public and private contributions. The proportions of each determined by your flavour of politics. Cases in point are things like the British railway, roads, the NHS or NASA. In our own industry it is open source software or things like CERN and the donation of the WWW we enjoy today. You need both. They tend to flip flop too, we nationalise something because we think that would be better. Then we privatise it and maybe at some point in the future we nationalise it again. We cannot seem to escape that both are necessary for healthy society.