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[-] Bread@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

They were, nothing cheaper than free slave labor.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

pretty sure the modern consensus is that the builders were well respected and well paid, and got to be buried in and near the pyramids they constructed.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Being buried by your job sounds like a throwaway line that was supposed to be world building in a cyberpunk novel. Go to Walmart and can't find parking cause the lot is full of headstones of dead Walmart greeters.

[-] Bread@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I sure hope that is the case. Would be nice to have something positive in history.

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