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this post was submitted on 17 May 2026
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Though with the textile mill thing, the quality of the cloth is much worse; I have a few historical reenactment friends who have been unable to find linen of the quality that even poor, working class people would have used (and Bernadette Banner has a recent YouTube video on the topic that my friends found validating and cathartic to see).
I'm not disagreeing with your point or anything — this is a bit of a tangent. I guess the point that I'm making is that textile mills did make everything worse, in terms of the availability of quality cloth, but this problem wasn't noticed for a long time because the mills also made cloth cheaper for the average person. Whereas AI doesn't even give us a benefit like this (which is why my comment is mostly irrelevant to your point and is just some bonus info because I'm a nerd)