• epicstove@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 day ago

    You remember as you kid you might have stacked rocks or Lego bricks?

    Thy basically did that with really really big rocks.

  • altphoto@lemmy.today
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    1 day ago

    Let’s gather together to figure out what went wrong. First off, hay they only waited for Microsoft technology, they could have built millions if not billions of these towers in coordination with the aliens who actually did all the work and while using our very secret 7th hand. You and I know about it but we must not let machines know.

  • SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    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.

        • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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          1 day ago

          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.

          • Samskara@sh.itjust.works
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            1 day ago

            Conservatives complain about biased reporting by the BBC constantly. It isn’t perfect, but they are doing an okay job mostly.

      • skepller@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        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.

        • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          24 hours ago

          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.

    • SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I hope you’re not taking info from christian piblications. These were professionals who lived in a dedicated settlement.

      • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        The professionals did the building. The slaves did the brick-making for the building, and probably a lot of other low skill things too.

      • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        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.

        • Saleh@feddit.org
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          1 day ago

          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?

              • meliaesc@lemmy.world
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                1 day ago

                Being physically owned is functionally different from struggling to afford your choice of housing and cuisine. I am really not sure how you would like me to elaborate the complete lack of bodily autonomy and freedom. Being provided bare necessities does not functionally negate the inability to get educated, to choose a profession, to leave a property, to not get physically abused, to be separated from your family, to be denied thr right to marry, to be sold.

                • Saleh@feddit.org
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                  1 day ago

                  But you can’t leave the property because you cannot afford rent anywhere else. You can’t get a different job, because there is no different job available in the area. You can’t get a better education because you cannot pay for it or even if it is free you cannot pay for your survival without the full time job, or multiple part time jobs. You get abused by the police or now also the ICE. You can’t afford to marry anyways…

                  Of course from the formal rights it is a huge difference, however from the practical result, modern wage work for working class people creates similarly unfree conditions. And it is no surprise that the ardent Neoliberals want to go further and establish slavery, by allowing contracts where people sell themselves “voluntarily” into permanent ownership of somebody else. This is the ultimate freedom according to these kind of Capitalists and they work to create such a society.

    • ElAndvari@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      🎶 Slaves built the pyramids! Slaves! Built the Parthenon! Slaves! Built America! Slaves! This is your song 🎶

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    2 days ago

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