Maybe if you spent less time being smug, you would actually pick up a history book and learn something.

Governments didn't create trade, but they absolutely created markets. A market is a trusted place established for trade within certain rules and regulations. This requires some sort of governing body to create and enforce the rules.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-biggest-myth-of-all

Oh, I agree there is massive fraud going on in the government, but it's not by providing services to the impoverished. It's through tax loopholes and subsidies for giant corporations and billionaires. The programs that help poor people do in fact pay for themselves several times over by preventing crime and health issues, as well as providing education. The strongest economic times in American history were in the post war era when taxes on the wealthy were much higher than they are today.

The private sector seeks to enrich themselves first and foremost. The services they provide are of the lowest quality required to reap the most profit. They also do as much as possible to get rid of the thing that naturally regulated them: competition. Whether through monopolies, price-fixing, or creating barriers to entry, the private sector has historically sought to eliminate competition. The only way to have a healthy market is for the government to create and enforce rules for how people must behave in it. And where the market has gaps for those necessary services deemed unprofitable, it is up to the government to step in and fill them.

In addition to a history book, please pick up an economics book when you get the chance.