Now, what is the way we've historically dealt with goods that aren't worth money but are required to for the general welfare...a sort of public good, if you wil

Now, what is the way we've historically dealt with goods that aren't worth money but are required to for the general welfare...a sort of public good, if you will. What was the organization usually tasked with public goods, again? The way we got the buildout of the telephone networks was the creation of the AT&T monopoly by the government, and they took their job seriously. An alternate approach would be nationalizing it and forcing the government to take care of it. Free market isn't likely to fix the problem.