Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe evidence points towards the pyramids being built by paid workers, and I think some even got to be buried in their own smaller pyramids
Correct, conditions of the workers of the Pyramids and Temples
-8 h per day, 6 days a week
-Free housing, food and a small garden for themselves and their families
-Medical assistance and care in sick leave due to illness and accident.
-Exempt from paying taxes
-Care and assistance for the old ex-workers.
(better than today in most countries)
Slaves (mostly prisoners of war and criminals) were naturally also used, but only for basic jobs and assistance. The Pharao knew very well that if he wants a job well done, he cannot get it with slaves and in poor conditions, but with well-cared and happy professionals.
God damn, they got better healthcare than I do five thousand years later.
gets rewarded with more work for working so hard
The most pathetic bootlickers don’t even have dreams of owning a pyramid and just want to whip downward at their fellow pyramid makers.
Okay hate on capitalism, fair enough
But equating it to literal slavery like we’ve had in the past (and still have in some parts of the world) seems problematic to me
“Experience demonstrates that there may be a slavery of wages only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.”
— Frederick Douglass
I suspect that most other actual slaves would not entirely agree with that sentiment
Your original stance was that it is “problematic” to equate them. Do you think it was problematic for Fredrick Douglass to equate them? If not then your original position has to change.
We don’t have polling on prior chattel slave views on wage slavery, but since you’re making a habit of just going with your gut, I’ll do the same. I’d wager most prior chattel slaves would’ve been more than happy to abolish all forms of slavery (including wage slavery).
we’ve had in the past
we definitely still have slavery in America. Like, in America. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of companies that outsource their slavery to other countries and then ship the product here so we can pretend it’s not made by slaves, but plenty of companies skip the middle man and just use slaves here
The whip makes the joke that they are slaves but it’s believed it was mostly wage earners build the pyramids. The joke still stands though. I mean it’s a fucking mausoleum. Wasting societies resources for a vanity project. The irony of his statement holds either way, as a wage laborer or a slave.
There’s a dude with a whip in the picture, so it seems like the artist believes it was slave labor
Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labor.
Having 100% exclusive rights over the fruits of a person’s labor, so, a job.
Slavery typically involves compulsory work with the slave’s location of work and residence dictated by the party that holds them in bondage.
Ever applied for a mortgage?
Having 100% exclusive rights over the fruits of a person’s labor, so, a job.
But they don’t. I can end this arrangement at any point in time.
Ever applied for a mortgage?
Yes, and I can’t remember anyone forcing me to buy this specific apartment, or preventing me from selling it and moving anywhere else.
Regardless, my point wasn’t that work isn’t slavery, my point is that the pyramids weren’t built with slave labor.
Never mind the foreign interest campaigns to get Americans to be less productive
Interestingly, I think the current consensus is that the workers who built the pyramids were not slaves, but rather ‘volunteers’ or ‘citizens’ who worked during the farming off-season. The ancient Egyptians didn’t use coins at this point, but the workers seem to have been housed in a kind of workers settlement near the site and paid in beer, bread, and grain.
Capitalism can suck my famous balls however
