If we ran the post office or certain public transit at a profit, they wouldn't be the services they are today. You admit this. Post office wouldn't run daily se

If we ran the post office or certain public transit at a profit, they wouldn't be the services they are today. You admit this. Post office wouldn't run daily service 6 days a week. They wouldn't run last mile to millions of people. Public transit wouldn't serve unprofitable communities. So no, they couldn't operate the same way. Hand-waving that away because it is wealth redistribution is invalid. Profit is not a prerequisite of value. Profit should not be the driving force of every mechanism in society. Caveat, not every public service which costs money is able to cost too much. Rejecting the profit motive is not equal to rejecting a bounded budget for programs.