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The government ought to build up solid businesses with a high value:cost ratio. They do not do this as they rely on altruism rather than greed as motivation which is almost always much lower. As a result government businesses are the inverse of businesses, they are institutions which rely on the goodwill of their members for motivation and are warped by their greed. On the other hand private businesses are motivated by greed and the altruism of it's members is devoted to not committing crime.
The only services that absolutely need to be run by the government are law enforcement and the military since they involve power and must be run through representative government. The point of socialism is to redistribute wealth from top to bottom, but the effect is to drain wealth from the economy so that people are dependant on the state. Many of the services the state provides are simply monopolies the state jumped apon back in the day and has clung onto ever since to the point we are dependant on the state.