Who the heck would trust a government that's these days synonymous with "the swamp?"
As for the free market, one thing about having a PC has taught old dino is that there is a far more than previously perceived horde of greedy scum out there vying in sundry ways to rip me off.
Unlike our government that's run by a swamp of conniving career politicians, free markets do more openly compete for my dollars.
I was a customer of CVS for a quarter of a century until two years ago I at the pharmacy counter felt insulted by a shoddy service issue. Me dino said to meself, "Why should I take any
crap here when there's a Walgreen's straight across the street?" Guess where me dino went right then and there? Straight across the street!
Government? A mid-70s encounter with the then Democrat of the Alabama senate Richard Shelby personally pegged him for a cowardly career politician.
Now he is a Republican US Senator, who forever appears on the ballot. Unlike CVS, I can't get rid of him. I vote for GOP challengers, who always lose. What else is across the street? A Jackass Party way worse than it was forty-so years ago.

I trust corrupt big business no more than I trust government. Both use government to loot others and to eliminate competition.
I agree that a technological solution might be more likely without government (and corrupt big business) intervention. Perhaps the solution is to encourage the big businesses to invest in developing a technology solution that provides a higher level of service for big business (at higher rates if they choose in a free market) without reducing service or increased costs to smaller users, and to guarantee such development protection from government (and corrupt business) meddling in it's free market use.