So you think a good way to end monopolies is to have the government take over private businesses? I’m puzzled to read that, at least here on FR.
I don’t know how it is where you live but in terms of “natural monopolies”, around here water and sewage are “publicly owned utilities”. Garbage is collected by whichever company paid the biggest bribe to the city’s politicians for the term of the contract. They then pay off the politicians in another municipality to allow them to dump our trash there.
Natural gas and electric service come to us via PG&E.
Describing PG&E as a private business, as though they were a corner gas station, is a little like describing the BATFE as the Mayberry PD. PG&E is a larger, more corrupt institution than most local (and many state) governments. They have no competition.
PG&E needs a foil, the threat of some kind of competition to keep them in check and local government is the only potential competition for them out there.