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This disease that is work, many people actually enjoy building pyramids for others, so those who own them happily continue to exist.

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Dont know why you’re downvoted because you are pretty right.

People enjoy working it give them purpose, this is why capitalism (making more money from wealth than from work) last so long

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I think didn’t like that I called this reality a disease. This purpose to build a pyramid of others for non-communal purposes is a serious and very widespread disease, so many people for a purpose are willing to become slaves.

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This is like saying people enjoy breathing, this is why health insurance companies exist…

Agreed, people enjoy working, if by working you mean being productive, building, creating, especially inventing something.

You can have two worlds where in one there is manipulative people holding all the wealth, doing nothing or in another where it’s fair.

Sometime ago someone decided it’s easier to manipulate others to do something and a snowball effect occured.

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Indoctrination and the slave mindset.

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Fun fact! Not many (if any) slaves were used in building the pyramids, a majority of the people were akin to skilled contractors and construction workers.

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We are all slaves in this capitalist system

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The famous ancient Egypt capitalist system.

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You do realize that there were actual slaves under capitalism… Right? Plus, ancient Egypt wasn’t really capitalist, it was focused around bartering and self-sufficiency

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Mostly agricultural workers, who had little to do outside of harvest season, from my understanding.

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i assume everyone in the old days was motivated by thinking god was keeping score? jealous tbh

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Slaves didn’t build the pyramids.

Workers were paid to do so.

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Do you want to stay and build the pyramids (get some food and a place to sleep) or go try your luck on your own in the desert?

Slaves also didn’t do sharecropping, they were “paid” to do so.

No one knows what the implications were for the Egyptian “workers”

It doesn’t make sense to treat your workers bad because you get less work. They probably got a lot of food and water for energy.

But a lot of “workers” were poor when they started and were poor when they died.

Their labor did not bring wealth

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Capitalistic outlook.

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