Ignoring the fucking 600m tall monoliths that we can build now…
And yet they don’t measure up to Squidward Community College.
That is true tho
And non of them will stand as long as the Pyramids.
Those were built to last.
Current buildings are built to be maintained and thereby turn even moar profits after construction.
The will not last as long as the pyramids, stone is a very good building material, metals which we use is very reactive and won’t last long without maintenance. If humans went extinct the first thing to go will be the metal buildings, the pyramids will last way longer.
Man, someone put a lot of effort into this shitpost of a site.
Tf is this lmao
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.
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.
And those workers were even afforded healthcare - a rarity at the time? (I would be significantly less enthused if I found out that it only covered work-related accidents rather than all things, but even so, still not the norm for slavery.)
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.
Not for the pyramids
Mayonnaise 101 is really something.
I resent European imperialism for killing interesting architecture.
Gelderloos argues in Worshiping Power that early states had to convince people of their superiority. Now that states are the norm and it’s barely possible to live in a stateless society, this isn’t necessary anymore.
I’ve graduated from the Squidward school of hard knocks but Im trying to model myself as more of a Squilliam these days.
Any idea where the Squilliam School of Applied Fuckery is located?
The more modern “wonders” are more of a WTF kind
