• Katana314@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Sometimes I bitterly wonder if it was humanity’s acceptance of slavery that enabled those large constructions. Things like safe working conditions didn’t exist back then.

    Of course, we basically have prison slavery, but I’m sure they’d prefer the products of that labor not be so publicly visible.

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      The pyramids were built by skilled labour. One of the options for paying taxes was to work on public works. It was also seen as a religious event, akin to modern missionaries.

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        The pyramids were architected and overseen by skilled labor. There was a whole lot of unskilled labor involved to move those blocks across the desert and into place.