The labor advocate in me loves this. The historian in me hates it.
Yes lol the people who built the pyramids were generally well paid.
The crazy thing is we still do things more or less the same way sometimes. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve helped move heavy electrical panels in through a door by rolling them along copper rods.
And then to get it into its final position, we use these fancy things called levers to slowly ease the panels off the rollers and precisely jimmy them till they sit within the square we marked out using chalk or sometimes a rope we dipped in ink.
Oh how far we’ve come since those primitive days.
No, but a well paid engineer is a bit different to the whipped slaves often depicted.
There was forced labor in Egypt but it was mostly agricultural. It was like corvee labor to build irrigation canals and dams and stuff, and it was how people paid their taxes basically
Edit: and just like in places with forced corvee labor today like Uzbekistan, you could pay your way out of it if you were wealthy enough https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/in-ancient-egypt-people-paid-to-become-temple-servants-674595/
Edit 2: Supposedly the state corvee in Uzbekistan ended March 2022 but I feel like people probably are still picking cotton a lot, they’re probably just getting paid now.
Okay good I vaguely recall pyramid building but thought slaves had less to do with them than what culture shows
Yep! Almost everyone that worked on the pyramids were basically skilled contractors or construction workers
People are barfing that up a lot lately, but the only reliable source I’ve seen shows that the people who built the pyramids were being paid in bread and beer; that is, they were receiving the necessities of life, not payment.
Giving slaves the necessities of life and calling it payment to justify the slavery is as old as … well, the pyramids at least.
Capitalistic outlook.
This disease that is work, many people actually enjoy building pyramids for others, so those who own them happily continue to exist.
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
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.
Those lowercase a’s are really bothering me next to all those capital letters.
i assume everyone in the old days was motivated by thinking god was keeping score? jealous tbh