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No, it’s been established long ago that they were workers wirh wages.
Shhh! They and their upvoters want to feel the glow of being justice heroes without looking up from their phone.
Interesting. Learn something new everyday.
Should I correct the meme, or let it stand for context?
Dunno what you mean by adjust, but if it were me I would just take it down since it just doesn’t apply to the situation. The response comments are probably enough context.
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.
It was a Pyramid scheme!
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.
Yeahhh, even if the evidence suggests otherwise, might as well cry SLAVES! cuz maybe there were - and possible evil should be called out even if we don’t know, right? Unless you ever innocently go to prison for being Probably guilty. But oh well.
Where theres a whip theres a way
You remember as you kid you might have stacked rocks or Lego bricks?
They basically did that with really really big rocks.
If you think about it, we never stopped.
Oh. That makes sense.
According to our internal call and subsequent meetings, we need to leverage the most recent rock technology in order to raise the level of productivity and the scalability of our pyramid business.
#productivity #teambuilding #notapyramidscheme
Signed: CEO of Egypt. Inc of pharaoh enterprises.
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.
They planned ahead of decades of work rather than the next quarter
Must be aliens.
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We’re not just stacking stones, we’re building the blockchain of eternity.
Legacy monuments are stuck in the past with zero data, zero scalability, and zero cloud integration, while humanity still lacks a truly iconic, scalable, and AI-optimized monument for the Web0 era. PYRAMID.AI is leveraging proprietary AI-driven algorithms to design, optimize, and construct next-gen pyramids at scale. With our neural net, you can…”
TAKE MY MONEY!
Mmmm meat innovation
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.
Not necessarily. Most people would have been nominally free, and most economic activity would have come from them.
Did they put the blocks into place with their economic activity?
… yes, labor is generally a pretty key piece of economic activity. There’s extensive archeological evidence about the processes of Ancient Egyptian economics, including discussions of obligation, payment, negotiation, etc.
No, the workers literally put them into place but the economic activity around them provided the food and drink and whatnot to the labourers.
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!
The daily scrum probably helped
Scrum looks like a shortened or cleaned-up version of another word
You can’t spell scrum without cum
I was thinking it looked like a longer version of another word.
Add 2 letters. Or take 2 away.
Yeah they used slavery instead
I hope you’re not taking info from christian piblications. These were professionals who lived in a dedicated settlement.
The professionals did the building. The slaves did the brick-making for the building, and probably a lot of other low skill things too.
If we’re talking about the pyramids the amount of quality building material in there was not sourced from slavery. Egyptian used slavery in farming and in army and logistic matters, but these heavenly buildings were all pretty important. What we do know is that salvery was also an outcome of tye conquest of other areas and cultures, so they forced them into what was considered egyptian culture at the time. And it’s a damn long time span of many hundreds of years. We have so much documentation from the egpyptian kingdom. There are things that are more mysterious than the pyramids to me, temples and little oddities like the Osireion.
🎶 Slaves built the pyramids! Slaves! Built the Parthenon! Slaves! Built America! Slaves! This is your song 🎶
Maybe they organised a pizza lunch for the survivors
(Limit 1 per person)
The had whips, massive, massive whips.
Or daily scrum. But to be fair they did originate standup meetings.
