Government ownership is the basis of your whole argument, and it's invariably a beehive of corruption.

Men won't work for blue ribbons, that's all rot." When he ceased the little man spoke up with a determined nod, as if resolved this time to have his say out.
"There are certain things which are human nature," he asserted with an owl-like look, "which always have been and always will be, which can't be changed." Amory looked from the small man to the big man helplessly.
"Listen to that! _That's_ what makes me discouraged with progress.
_Listen_ to that! I can name offhand over one hundred natural phenomena that have been changed by the will of man--a hundred instincts in man that have been wiped out or are now held in check by civilization.

What this man here just said has been for thousands of years the last refuge of the associated mutton-heads of the world.

It negates the efforts of every scientist, statesman, moralist, reformer, doctor, and philosopher that ever gave his life to humanity's service.

It's a flat impeachment of all that's worth while in human nature.