How do dominant economic activities or modes influence economic systems?

I'm noodling at this idea, and broke out some thoughts in the comments section of this Diaspora post:
https://joindiaspora.com/posts/e045d2304aec0139cee5002590d8e506

Specifically my comment beginning:

I’m referring to a set of economic activities which, if you look at history seem to emerge ...

TL;DR:

There seem to be roughly 3 stages of major economic operation and organisation to date among humans:

• Hunter-gatherer, typified by small tribes and a range of organisations, ranging from highly communal to highly authoritarian. Dominant activity is the sourcing mode of the mode's name.

• Agricultural cities, monarchies, and empires, with increasing amounts of trading in later periods. Tending strongly toward ultimately feudal systems (both economically and socially) existing in Rome, China, Egypt, the Indus River Valley, and Europe, to about 1750.

• Several variants on industrial / monopoly / financialised economies, since about 1750--1850, highly reliant on extractive activities, and dominated by free-market / capitalist / private property economic models.

I see a "hygiene model" being one possible future, which doesn't seem to fit well with the assumptions and institutions of market capitalism.

The general dominant activities are:

• Sourcing
• Making
• Distribution
• Risk
• Information / Management
• Hygiene

(Defined in the link.)

This isn't a value-driven analysis, though it raises some interesting questions.

For those who are into that sort of thing.

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