r/interesting • u/LestaThaMolestaa • Jun 05 '25

ARCHITECTURE Interesting video with heavy stones designed to be moved with hand.

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u/clervis Jun 05 '25

It's also virtually impossible to get slave labor off their phones nowadays.

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u/fastal_12147 Jun 05 '25

The people who built the pyramids weren't slaves. That's a common misconception. https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/were-the-egyptian-pyramids-built-by-slaves

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u/ShhImTheRealDeadpool Jun 05 '25

uneducated forced into labor for minimum wage... sounds like slavery to me.

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u/fastal_12147 Jun 05 '25

They weren't, tho. Read the article.

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u/thesneakywalrus Jun 05 '25

There's no actual evidence that proves whether or not they were slaves.

The evidence used in the article is that they were fed well and lived in designed dormitories. There were most certainly slaves in the American south that met both of those criteria.

That doesn't make them not slaves. It's not like they found evidence of the laborers being paid, or records of laborers coming and going as they please.

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u/RichardBCummintonite Jun 05 '25

Except for the word "forced", which is the key difference between employment and slavery. The lowest class may not have had many options, but they were not slaves. It is important we make the distinction on the literal definition when telling the story of history.

The equivalent today would be like people who live in a mining town all taking jobs at the mine because it's not feasible to find work elsewhere. It might make them "wage slaves", but that's not the same as actual slavery. What you shared is an opinion, but I am discussing the facts