The issues with infrastructure-for-profit become even more profound it we look toward what it will take to have functioning infrastructural systems for the next century or so. To begin with, no corporation has any interest in the well-being of our descendants twenty or fifty or a hundred years from now, even as potential customers, because the profit motive is fundamentally incompatible with long-term thinking. Investor-owned companies have no interest in creating nonmonetary benefits or positive externalities, other than incidentally, and they are incentivized to ignore negative externalities.except when legally required to address them. Profit-seeking is at odds with maintenance and reliability in the present, and it'll be incompatible with resilience and sustainability in the future.

— How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra (Page 259)