• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 days ago

        Maybe not the “build the pyramid” itself. Just maybe. But all the transportation, accomodations and food for the builders surely came from slaves.

        • PugJesus@lemmy.world
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          2 days ago

          Not necessarily. Most people would have been nominally free, and most economic activity would have come from them.

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              2 days ago

              … 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.

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              2 days ago

              No, the workers literally put them into place but the economic activity around them provided the food and drink and whatnot to the labourers.

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      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.

      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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        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.