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It was a Pyramid scheme!
Never underestimate the power of water cooler interactions -C suite
They probably just scrum pokered really well
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
Here come the slave and alien comments
Hear me out:
Alien slaves.
Slave alien. Slavien
Slavs for short
Oh I was thinking underground mole people and wizards but I like your idea better
Whips. Lots and lots of whips.
Where theres a whip theres a way
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
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.
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.
Maybe they organised a pizza lunch for the survivors
(Limit 1 per person)
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
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Levitation and teleportation technology. We’re devolving not evolving people.
I bet they used waterfall.
Yeah they used slavery instead
🎶 Slaves built the pyramids! Slaves! Built the Parthenon! Slaves! Built America! Slaves! This is your song 🎶
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.
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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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They had slaves. A lot of slaves.
Just throw human death and suffering at them until they’re finished!
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 because they didn’t have modern technology doesn’t mean they didn’t have any technology. They could have used Skype for videoconferencing.
This is why we shouldn’t overly glamorize the past.
They used RealVideo back in the day
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.
