I think we might not bring up the government in america because our government has not really had a problem getting big things done and has helped us lay the foundation for what the private sector has since built on. For all its faults, the government helped drive nuclear power, the space race, the internet, and biotech. I dont know where the US would be without the bomb, apollo, arpanet, and the human genome project. We had a private sector able to pick up from there to carry on the next steps, but our success is rooted in literal moonshots by out government as well. And we can argue all day about whether the private sector could have done all that more efficiently or whatever, but the fact of history is that the government did it. And, it did it in a way that involved the private sector through contractors etc that seeded talent outside government agencies and gave the private sector a good launching off point.