Notably, food and to some extent clothing (textiles) have been very much the concern of the state, or of the way the state’s organized. What’s changed is that b

Notably, food and to some extent clothing (textiles) have been very much the concern of the state, or of the way the state’s organized. What’s changed is that both got way the hell cheaper to make and we settled on some good, more-or-less stable regulations and systems of management to keep things from getting too nutty too fast.