A dream is a wish your heart makes ๐ โจ
It's only been that way since the late early 1980s, though. Blame Reagan. Think about the Interstate Highway system. The telephone network. The Internet. The main difference between those and everything else is that the Federal Government either made it happen or controlled it while it happened. Big projects have big risks and needs a big benefactor.
But as long as people believe the nonsense that "Government IS the problem" we're dead in the water.