At point is it legitimate for a certain government (state, city, municipal etc) to say a commodity or service (water, utilities etc) should be a right for all of its citizens? And provide the public utility as a monopoly?

Will emerging network states / city states do the same?

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the point at which the economy of scale can undersell all competitors, but this is kind of dangerous cause there's no explicit guardrail for credible neutrality. 

ideally network states lean hard into fat protocols 100% "down the stack".  some services consume a huge margin instead of accelerating market competition.