• Oxysis/Oxy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 days ago

    I mean the artisans who worked on the pyramids were payed quite well. They even got buried nearby when they eventually passed away.

    And no, slaves were not the ones building a the pyramids.

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        10 days ago

        This is speculation but I’d bet there was some amount of less-than-voluntary aspect to the construction of at least some of the pyramids. As in “we’ll pay you, but this is your job for the next 30 years while you’re not harvesting.”

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          to be fair, there was fuck all to do inbetween harvests. if someone came up to me as i’m bored out of my mind watching grains grow and said “hey wanna help build a huge fucking triangle? the pharaoh pays well” i’d say yes in a heartbeat. i doubt they had trouble finding workers

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      I honestly forget that frequently. My general attitude when any type of believer says something I consider obvious bullshit is to spend a couple of seconds thinking we’re in on a pretend joke until it hits me.

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      In my experience the overwhelming maj{rity of believers don’t. Theyll say they do and argue and gwt offended, bit its just an identity/social thing to them.

      It’s kinda sad,

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    Somebody once advanced the theory that the pyramids may have been public works projects, to keep the whole economy from collapsing. The pharaohs had accumulated so much of the available wealth, they spent some of it to put people to work. I think that’s an interesting speculation.

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      So trickle down eventually works. You just have to let them get to godhood first. Got it.

      Capitalism probably

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      ‘Paid’. When some egyptaboo tells you that “there weren’t slaves in Egypt at this time”, remember the ‘workers’ were paid in housing, bread, and beer. And were kinda bound by their duty to the God-Pharaoh. Totally not slavery!

      Tho now thinking of it it’s not like my wage stretches farther than that either…

      Edit: spelling and punctuation are hard.

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        remember the ‘workers’ were paid in housing, bread, and beer.

        That’s more than many people will get today from a single job. 💀

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            I am. Feel free to talk with people about this who live in old vehicles, on a friends’ couch or literally on the streets despite having a “job”. Or those who only have proper housing and food by working two or more jobs.

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                  The only reason we don’t have this shit in more rich countries often is that people receive welfare despite working a full-time job because it doesn’t pay properly. In Germany we call this “aufstocken”. Basically another way to create wage slavery and redirect money from the state towards the private sector. The US is just very obvious and very loud about everything. Other third world countries indeed don’t have it any better.

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    10 days ago

    Glory and worship is equally addictive as profit. The whole point was to have a badass setup in the afterlife. So you could consider this “profit”

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      In medieval times that’s certainly true. Egyptian laborers were paid. Generally in food and housing, as coinage wouldn’t be introduced for quite some time. Especially skilled laborers were sometimes given land. Egypt had a very routinized farming season and most laborers were farmers with nothing to farm in the off season.

      Skilled stone masons could kinda go wherever so locking them in to work with taxes was a great way to get them to leave.

      Fun fact, they had a daily meal of a particularly thick beer that had chunks of bread in it. And one time they went on strike when they ran out of wigs.

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    10 days ago

    I mean the pyramids were wholly improductive multi-decade undertakings, so that’s not making the point you think it’s making.