It is, because corporations have stronger incentives than governments to benefit the common man.
In theory.
Not at all. See “concentrated benefits and diffuse costs”.
You'd have to pick your allegiance and then face the consequences. Or they'd pick you before you had a chance to choose yourself. Do you think the lords of old let the serfs have a say in whether they wanted to leave or stay? No. It would be the same for us. Going to digital lords and barons and no states to rein them in would be regressing.
Overall governments increase standards which can lead to few players but it can also help an industry grow quicker and allow for more complex/value products/services which creates an industry around it helping support it (shopify)
The Ma Bell monopoly was created by government in the first place.
That’s right. By the government [0][1].
[0] https://www.wired.com/2013/07/we-need-to-stop-focusing-on-ju...
[1] http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/2014/02/19/whos-afraid-o...