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[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 118 points 4 weeks ago

Just because they didn't have modern technology doesn't mean they didn't have any technology. They could have used Skype for videoconferencing.

[-] moody@lemmings.world 10 points 4 weeks ago

They used RealVideo back in the day

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

This is why we shouldn't overly glamorize the past.

[-] Talaraine@fedia.io 50 points 4 weeks ago

They planned ahead of decades of work rather than the next quarter

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 11 points 4 weeks ago

Apparently, Giza had 20,000 laborers in addition to 16,000 support staff working on the pyramid over 20 to 30 years.

The California High Speed Rail is the only thing comparable in the USA and that has only required 15,000 jobs since 2015.

[-] deranger@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 weeks ago

The difference is the pyramids exist

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[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 43 points 4 weeks ago

They used the oldest trick in the book, wage theft

[-] FelixCress@lemmy.world 42 points 4 weeks ago

They had slaves. A lot of slaves.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 41 points 4 weeks ago

The pyramids being built with slaves is largely incorrect.

[-] crank0271@lemmy.world 18 points 4 weeks ago

I suppose it was the hustler grindset

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 13 points 4 weeks ago

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.

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[-] tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Just throw human death and suffering at them until they're finished!

[-] claimsou@lemmy.world 27 points 4 weeks ago

It was a Pyramid scheme!

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 25 points 4 weeks ago

The daily scrum probably helped

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[-] Sillyglow@lemmy.ca 21 points 4 weeks ago

Whips. Lots and lots of whips.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 10 points 4 weeks ago

While Egypt did practice slavery, evidence suggests the pyramids were built by well-fed craftsmen.

I know BBC isn't the best source, but it's fine for this purpose: https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/were-the-egyptian-pyramids-built-by-slaves

[-] SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 weeks ago

Why is the BBC not a good source?

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 6 points 4 weeks ago

State-run media with a conservative bias (despite the conservatives being their greatest threat). They're fine for this type of reporting, but they immediately roll over whenever a conservative accuses them of reporting reality, and any reporting on a perceived enemy is hilariously distorted.

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[-] skepller@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

Like you mentioned, Ancient Egypt did have slavery, so even if there's evidence of temporary villages for paid workers, it's very hard to believe slaves were also not involved as well on projects of this scale.

Even on the hardly off chance that there were 0 slaves near the pyramid, the whole material gathering and transport job to the pyramid site was an insanely huge amount of labour as well.

[-] centipede_powder@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Where theres a whip theres a way

[-] amotio@lemmy.world 20 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

They had whips, massive, massive whips.

[-] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 16 points 4 weeks ago
[-] postnataldrip@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago

Maybe they organised a pizza lunch for the survivors

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[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 13 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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[-] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

Here come the slave and alien comments

[-] Monster96@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

Oh I was thinking underground mole people and wizards but I like your idea better

[-] miridius@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah they used slavery instead

[-] BelTheBard 9 points 4 weeks ago
[-] raltoid@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

The masons and other specialized workers were paid, and there is a theory that many of the laborers living near Giza were paid, but no one actually knows if they were. What is known, is that slaves were used in that era, and thinking they weren't at least used in transportation of materials is naive.

[-] Saleh@feddit.org 3 points 4 weeks ago

If a slave is granted accommodation and food by his master, is it functionally different from a worker in a country with no social security, whose wage does not cover both food and accommodation?

[-] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

I hope you're not taking info from christian piblications. These were professionals who lived in a dedicated settlement.

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[-] ElAndvari@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

🎶 Slaves built the pyramids! Slaves! Built the Parthenon! Slaves! Built America! Slaves! This is your song 🎶

[-] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 11 points 4 weeks ago

According to our internal call and subsequent meetings, we need to leverage the most recent rock technology in order to raise the level of productivity and the scalability of our pyramid business.

#productivity #teambuilding #notapyramidscheme

Signed: CEO of Egypt. Inc of pharaoh enterprises.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 weeks ago
[-] Im_old@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Every time I watch that video I die inside a bit more. I've been in too many meetings like that.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago
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[-] wpb@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

They probably just scrum pokered really well

[-] bdjukemgood@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

Never underestimate the power of water cooler interactions -C suite

[-] epicstove@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

You remember as you kid you might have stacked rocks or Lego bricks?

They basically did that with really really big rocks.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 weeks ago

If you think about it, we never stopped.

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[-] ubergeek@lemmy.today 5 points 4 weeks ago

Must be aliens.

[-] SomGye@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 weeks ago

They clearly used AOL Instant Messenger 🙄👌

[-] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

how foolish of you to think they DIDNT have that

[-] plyth@feddit.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

Taxes on land ownership, not work.

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