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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well then probably paid from the profits of slavery. That much labor could not have been cheap.

  Also I imagine they had divisions of labor. The guys who knew how to calculate the angle of the triangle or artisans who could shape the stone were probably not the same guys pushing rocks.

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Depending on how exactly you draw the line on ‘slavery’… maybe? Kinda?

    For the Great Pyramid, the current approximate consenus is that it was basically a corvee labor system for a large amount of the population of Egypt.

    Basically, when the farmers were all in their off season, they’d be drafted for a number of months a year to aid construction as general laborers.

    They were housed, fed, and paid for this, by the state/royal coffers.

    They were paid in material goods like foodstuffs, as currency in the way we think of it wasn’t really a thing at the time.

    And yes, they absolutely did have divisions of labor, they had basically nobility or psuedo nobilility people who could largely read and write as trained architects and engineers and mathematicians and record keepers and accountants, and had a whole slew of the craftsmen / stone mason class below them.

    So… it is forced labor, you couldn’t really opt out, but you would be compensated.

    Egypt did have roughly chattel slaves at the time, they probably participated as well, but they are estimated to be 10% of the total population of Egypt at the time.

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    • laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To: All Staff From: Morale Department Subj: EXCITING new partnership!

      Team, big news! After a very productive meeting, we’ve received a special clarification directly from the Vatican on workplace motivation!

      Turns out, Colossians 3:23 (“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord”) is now considered binding corporate policy.

      So, effective immediately, hitting your quarterly goals is a direct path to salvation. On the flip side, slacking off is… well, let’s just say the paperwork for eternal damnation is a real hassle for everyone involved.

      Let’s get to work, saints! 😉

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      • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Is this like a Return To Office thing, or can I continue to build the pyramid from home?

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      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I realize this is a joke, and it did elicit a good chuckle from me, but I have two technical sort of nit picks / factoids.

        As I understand these things:

        To the vast majority of Catholics, the Pope is not literally a god-king, who becomes basically a minor god oh his physical death, or just literally is onenof the greater gods made incarate… the Pope is God’s chosen representative on Earth, sort of like a more formalized version of many Old Testament prophets, who also leads God’s church.

        Also… the Amish, the Mennonites… they very much do have as part of their culture, which very much revolves around religion… that you more or less are a expected to, and by this cement that you are a good person of faith and character, that you help others by participating, often regularly, in work-gangs, to stand up at least the basics of barn or house, in what is a shockingly short amount of time, and done in a very high quality manner, with less technologically advanced tools than what is normal for others.

        Seriously, if you’ve never seen this, go look up something like Amish Barn Raising on youtube.

        They start with basically just raw materials, assemble large parts of the framing, stand em up with just ropes, set up and join the whole thing, get the outer walls and roof on and doors on, in under a a single work day.

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    • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you died on the job you would also get to be buried in the pyramid so that’s nice

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      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Free funeral expenses, rofl

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Though I’d bet that any that tried arguing against the “sacred privilegness” had some sort of severe physical punishment, perhaps against them directly or perhaps against the people of the region they were from.

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      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Probably yes?

        I do not know as much about how strict of a theocracy Egypt was in that time period, but probably fairly substantially, yes.

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  • msage@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So, just like us right now?

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  • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m listening to Fall of Civilizations right now on ancient egypt and the pharaoh wouldn’t allow something as important as direct labor of the pyramids to slaves. Instead, slaves would work to mine the materials but the construction would be done by paid laborers.

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• SleepyPie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In just enough beer to survive their next shift

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• PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Egyptian labor unions lol

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  • lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I remember reading about pyramid workers going on strike to request a higher make-up quota.

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