The simplest way to explain it in terms everyone ought to understand; “That Ideas must yield to Fact” And the Collectivist creed in today’s language is No Idea leads to Power and Riches and command the peasantry.
You have been inexplicably locked into the notion Government is here to help?
Simply remove the unproductive and exorbitant expense from society That is Government and its Battalions of Parasitic vanguards ; They serve no purpose other than their own self interests, at all productive peoples expense and their freedom.

The larger corporations of today Pelican are just as much beuarocratic incompetent as their parasitic counterpart, Government. There are good reasons for that notion; Juxtaposed to private Enterprise; Small- Medium Business to a greater point are and have been systematically made by Decree in a language not spoken , but by autocratic action; are redundant in effect; or well in advance of being inevitably made redundant.
So the State Monopoly again Rules.

If the state pays out One dollar , as a Tax payer in turn ,, It costs you 18 dollars for that one dollar to be dispersed to fund the Upper class Welfare of the State Minions; And that is our greatest inflationary and the biggest consumer of Ideas and Wealth Not to forget the consumer of our Rights and freedom.
People by nature are generous and very well intentioned Pelican, Not the State; they must rob you of everything you have and eventually they will, just so it can exist.
And are doing so

Your question assumes a "totalitarian private sector", whatever that means.

(What does it mean? Mikk uses it to mean a situation where those without property are at the mercy of those with. But this does not describe the Australian workers, who have lots of property - houses, cars, caravans, boats, horses, horse-trailers, bikes, TVs, and disposable income which they spend on x-boxes and chocolate biscuits. Many of them could start their own business but don't want to because of the increased risk and frightful regulations. It is simple gibberish to portray this as a class at the extremes of starvation and therefore requiring government interventions.)

So I don't know where you're getting this "totalitarian private sector" idea from. Force and fraud are illegal in the private sector which does not claim nor exercise any monopoly - except those granted by government - and comprises innumerable parties each of which checks and balances the other - which you are in favour of - by being in competition with each other - which you are against.

On other other hand, the government "sector" comprises only one party, and that a monopollist, and that based on coercion. So you haven't established how it's any kind of balance in the first place.

All trade restrictions (some of which you are in favour of) make the masses poorer (which you are against) so you are merely displaying the ethical confusion and economic illiteracy that is characteristic of the left wing.

Sorry for missing all the fun everyone. Been moving house and have had the internet down. You're doing a great job Pelican! Free market economics is based on a set of assumptions just as what you advocate is. Personally I think that your assumptions are much more logical, reasonable and responsible.

End the free trade madness!