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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.
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
Still a better outcome to worker ratio,
It was a Pyramid scheme!
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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.
They used the oldest trick in the book, wage theft
The daily scrum probably helped
Scrum looks like a shortened or cleaned-up version of another word
Scrumptious?
I was thinking it looked like a longer version of another word.
Add 2 letters. Or take 2 away.
You can’t spell scrum without cum
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
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!
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.
“PYRAMID.AI - Where eternity meets innovationTM
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…”
Mmmm meat innovation
TAKE MY MONEY!
The had whips, massive, massive whips.
Maybe they organised a pizza lunch for the survivors
(Limit 1 per person)
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.
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
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