In an ideal world, there wouldn't be companies, we would all work together. We don't, and our society is instead organized along capitalist premises. As such, t

In an ideal world, there wouldn't be companies, we would all work together. We don't, and our society is instead organized along capitalist premises. As such, the government support parts of the market that we feel need encouragement, and ostensibly stays out of the way otherwise. You can agree or disagree with the premise, but that's how we do things. There are many, many vastly more egregious cases of privatizing gains and socializing losses than electric cars and reinventions of the energy network.