Silicon Valley started out as Fairchild Electronics, which started out as a defense contractor. Nevertheless, I’m generally less than enthusiastic about arguments that everything wrong with the private sector has its roots in the public sector. I can get arguments to that effect from “libertarians” and even conservatives, and of course they’re structured the same way as the same arguments from “left” libertarians.If I really believed that enterprise absent government were necessarily benign, why not just be an ancap? But I don’t believe that to be true.