Man-made wonders

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Mayonnaise 101 is really something.

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The pyramids were built by skilled labour. One of the options for paying taxes was to work on public works. It was also seen as a religious event, akin to modern missionaries.

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Tf is this lmao

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That is true tho

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Man, someone put a lot of effort into this shitpost of a site.

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And non of them will stand as long as the Pyramids.

AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet

The pyramids were architected and overseen by skilled labor. There was a whole lot of unskilled labor involved to move those blocks across the desert and into place.

OpenStars

Those were built to last.

Current buildings are built to be maintained and thereby turn even moar profits after construction.

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And those workers were even afforded healthcare - a rarity at the time? (I would be significantly less enthused if I found out that it only covered work-related accidents rather than all things, but even so, still not the norm for slavery.)

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I mean, I wouldn't want tons of labor to be spent on building a huge tomb for a single rich and powerful guy...

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The rich are certainly expending a lot of effort into making one giant tomb for all of us.

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Gelderloos argues in Worshiping Power that early states had to convince people of their superiority. Now that states are the norm and it's barely possible to live in a stateless society, this isn't necessary anymore.

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I resent European imperialism for killing interesting architecture.

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Don't you worry, I'm sure the rich will be just fine.

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The will not last as long as the pyramids.

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The rich

effort

Sounds like an oxymoron.

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Oh phew, I was getting worried for the poor billionares and millionares.

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I mean, from what I've heard, prison slavery is really widespread in the US, and apparently (this one I'm not really sure about) prisoners are currently being used to put out the fires in LA.

And besides that, we (westeners) can nicely use all the poor countries we fucked over for all our slavery needs. As uncomfortable as it is to admit, the phone I'm using to type this most likely has had at least some slavery involved.

(P.S. as another commenter pointed out, the pyramids weren't built with slave labor. The ancient Greeks came to look at the pyramids much later and thought they were built by slaves because that's how the Greeks built their stuff.)

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If it gets catastrophic enough for society to collapse, which is not at all unrealistic, the rich will be just as fucked as the rest of us. They may last a few months more, but they're fucked without their peasants.

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