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    1 year ago

    They were, nothing cheaper than free slave labor.

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      1 year ago

      pretty sure the modern consensus is that the builders were well respected and well paid, and got to be buried in and near the pyramids they constructed.

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        Being buried by your job sounds like a throwaway line that was supposed to be world building in a cyberpunk novel. Go to Walmart and can’t find parking cause the lot is full of headstones of dead Walmart greeters.

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        I sure hope that is the case. Would be nice to have something positive in history.