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Just because they didn’t have modern technology doesn’t mean they didn’t have any technology. They could have used Skype for videoconferencing.
They used RealVideo back in the day
This is why we shouldn’t overly glamorize the past.
They planned ahead of decades of work rather than the next quarter
Apparently, Giza had 20,000 laborers in addition to 16,000 support staff working on the pyramid over 20 to 30 years.
The California High Speed Rail is the only thing comparable in the USA and that has only required 15,000 jobs since 2015.
The difference is the pyramids exist
Just need another 21,000 people working on it
Still a better outcome to worker ratio,
They used the oldest trick in the book, wage theft
They had slaves. A lot of slaves.
The pyramids being built with slaves is largely incorrect.
I suppose it was the hustler grindset
Maybe not the “build the pyramid” itself. Just maybe. But all the transportation, accomodations and food for the builders surely came from slaves.
The hell of one idea that just won’t die. It was created out of thin air by sheer force of racist speculation, and known to be wrong for close to a century. Yet people still keep repeating it.
people need to think than they have it better than people in the past did. it gives them motivation and a happy attitude, and as we all know, happy workers are more productive, so media lets them keep that attitude.
Just throw human death and suffering at them until they’re finished!
It was a Pyramid scheme!
The daily scrum probably helped
Scrum looks like a shortened or cleaned-up version of another word
I was thinking it looked like a longer version of another word.
Add 2 letters. Or take 2 away.
Scrumptious?
You can’t spell scrum without cum
Whips. Lots and lots of whips.
While Egypt did practice slavery, evidence suggests the pyramids were built by well-fed craftsmen.
I know BBC isn’t the best source, but it’s fine for this purpose: https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/were-the-egyptian-pyramids-built-by-slaves
Why is the BBC not a good source?
State-run media with a conservative bias (despite the conservatives being their greatest threat). They’re fine for this type of reporting, but they immediately roll over whenever a conservative accuses them of reporting reality, and any reporting on a perceived enemy is hilariously distorted.
Conservatives complain about biased reporting by the BBC constantly. It isn’t perfect, but they are doing an okay job mostly.
Like you mentioned, Ancient Egypt did have slavery, so even if there’s evidence of temporary villages for paid workers, it’s very hard to believe slaves were also not involved as well on projects of this scale.
Even on the hardly off chance that there were 0 slaves near the pyramid, the whole material gathering and transport job to the pyramid site was an insanely huge amount of labour as well.
Where theres a whip theres a way
They had whips, massive, massive whips.
Maybe they organised a pizza lunch for the survivors
(Limit 1 per person)
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No, it’s been established long ago that they were workers wirh wages.
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Yeah they used slavery instead
Not slaves
The masons and other specialized workers were paid, and there is a theory that many of the laborers living near Giza were paid, but no one actually knows if they were. What is known, is that slaves were used in that era, and thinking they weren’t at least used in transportation of materials is naive.
If a slave is granted accommodation and food by his master, is it functionally different from a worker in a country with no social security, whose wage does not cover both food and accommodation?
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The professionals did the building. The slaves did the brick-making for the building, and probably a lot of other low skill things too.
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🎶 Slaves built the pyramids! Slaves! Built the Parthenon! Slaves! Built America! Slaves! This is your song 🎶
Here come the slave and alien comments
Oh I was thinking underground mole people and wizards but I like your idea better
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Reminded me of the expert.
Every time I watch that video I die inside a bit more. I’ve been in too many meetings like that.
Lots and lots of beer
Ha! You got me there. I was just about to complain that none mentioned slaves, then saw the comment that did mention them (together with aliens) which is (imho) even worst than ignoring their suffering… but here you are, making my day by reminding me that those slaves had a “fair” (/s) pay for their suffering-work :P
