But in the world of government, they all still have their jobs at the same pay and benefits as always. A network of buyers and sellers competing for your business make their best judgments. If they're wrong, they lose and you take your business elsewhere. There is accountability to the public, checks and balances of the market and it works. Free markets give you lower cost and better products as you have seen in computers, long distance telephone service and any number of other products or services you use daily.
Electricity is necessary.
But you need food first. Your food is not grown, picked, distributed and marketed by the State. But yet it is there,safe, cheap, varied and reliable. State run monopolies bring you service and cost control like the DMV and CalTrans. All the socialist and communist countries of the world have proven that markets work and state control doesn't.