Is the Roman Economy Really Run by the State?

There are groups of people performing specialized tasks to masproduce these goods for the legions, and then shipping them o often very impressive distances. Iurs re not factories in the industrial sense, notly thereis clanking gears or anything. And we know thesethtings existed from the ot f, the notatia initatium, for example. These, you know, state run factories. But for instance, something like pottery, the state has no interest in pottery. That's at y market. It is exactly like our markets are dependent on the state a but there is an independent market force at work, right yo?