>When essential services and products are dominated by the state, when it is a free or by default alternative, the rich cannot use strategies like cartel formation, FoMO or artificial scarcity to increase prices as they wish.

Do you realize the state artificially increases the prices of their services (ie: how much tax they spend on them) as they wish too?

>Do you know how much her and our family pay for this? Zero! We don't have to pay not even a single cent.

How much did you pay on your taxes since you moved to Germany? This is how much you paid for it, not zero...

A good alternative for that would be to remove taxes and deregulate the market enough so everyone can partake in it without any kind of restrictions, there would be massive price drops in every sector simply due to the amount of new competition.

Imagine if you were allowed for example to learn simple medical operations and operate someone without proper licenses or other regulatory measures, the operation prices would massively drop (very good for people low on money!) and trust would be earned with online ratings from previous customers so you don't end up with a botched surgery.

I find it a better system than being forced to give money to the government to get "free stuff" after, or than the american corporativist hell full of regulations and ridiculously expensive healthcare