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Governments can contain businesses, and those businesses should run sort-of like businesses. They should care about customers. Ideally, not at a huge deficit.

In Canada, this is called a "crown corporation".

Canadian examples include CATSA (like the TSA), CBC (TV network), VIA Rail (like Amtrak), LCBO and Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation (provincial monopolies on alcohol and marijuana sales, respectively).