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[-] throwback3090@lemmy.nz 0 points 22 hours ago

Labor was free because of slavery, so the economics were not the same. Current engineering has the concept of "over engineering" which is what cracked-up addicts in wall street call "building to last", due to the "expense" of not being shortsighted on a quarter by quarter basis.

[-] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Was it slaves? I am not seeing any references to slaves building the original bridge online anywhere, where did you see that? :o

[-] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I think it's just an assumption based on the mode of society at that time in history. If it was built in the 12th century it was built by what we would now consider slaves. In the 1100s the land was divided into fiefs and the lord of that land considered the people who lived and worked on the land as part of that land: serfs. Unless this bridge was an exception to the rule, then serfs would have undertaken all the labour that got it built.