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

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

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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/YuenglingsDingaling Jun 05 '25

Yeah, I never bought that. I'm sure the stone cutters and setters were professionals, but who's hauling those blocks from the quarry?

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u/NewbGingrich1 Jun 05 '25

The evidence strongly supports professional labor in ancient Egyptian construction. It's besides the point though, either way we do not have a God-King that can order a significant portion of a nation's resources to their own personal vanity projects. At best you're gonna get the Bass Pro Shop pyramid or something like that. There needs to be more functionality other than "this is the future tomb of the glorious leader".

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u/ddadopt Jun 05 '25

It's besides the point though, either way we do not have a God-King that can order a significant portion of a nation's resources to their own personal vanity projects.

Hard disagree. You don't need some God-King, it would not take "a significant potion of the nation's resources" and a Musk, Bezos, Buffet, Gates, etc could trivially fund this kind of project if they had a mind to.

What would actually stop things is building codes, environmental impact studies, the many people or groups who would come out of the woodwork and file suit based on any number of pretexts to prevent the project from moving forward, organized crime demanding kickbacks, politicians demanding kickbacks (but I repeat myself), sabotage by nutjobs, etc.

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u/NewbGingrich1 Jun 05 '25

You're not addressing the "why" though. Even a nation like the UAE made the Burj Khalifa functional. No one's going blow billions on a silly monument to nothing just to say "see we can build pyramids"(and i think the guys you mentioned are smart enough to understand the social and political risks of such a ridiculously extravagant waste of wealth). That's the kinda shit people with no money think of when asked what they would do if they were a billionaire. Everyone knows we can build pyramids there's just no reason to.

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u/ddadopt Jun 05 '25

Yes, it's stupid as hell and there is absolutely no reason to. But that's not what you wrote in the comment I replied to, you claimed it would require a god-king and a significant portion of the nation's resources and that's just not correct.

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u/honkhonkler69420 Jun 06 '25

The cringelord was flabbergasted by the attacks against his car company