• BmeBenji@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Oh yeah. The chad slavedriver vs the virgin computer guy. Tale as old as time

      • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        3 months ago

        I’m begging people to actually educate themselves on how the pyramids were built. They were built by paid workers, but then later, the Greeks saw them and assumed they were built by slaves because that’s what the Ancient Greek did with their building projects.

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          3 months ago

          The claims that they were built by the slaves or voluntary labor are both wrong. They were built by levied labor. Think a military draft, but you’re performing general labor for the state instead of fighting. Yes, those on the work gangs were fed, housed, and paid while there. But they weren’t building pyramids of their own free will either. It was still conscripted and forced labor. After their term of service, the workers got to go home. But it was still forced labor.

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Oh you’re right. Did a quick google search and apparently the Greeks just thought up the slavery thing. Not sure why that narrative was still taught in school. Sequel meme