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You can never have all the people pushing the rock. Women, children, and the elderly wouldn't. And you need a large supply chain to feed and shelter the rock pu
by tlb 8y ago
You can never have all the people pushing the rock. Women, children, and the elderly wouldn't. And you need a large supply chain to feed and shelter the rock pushers along the route.
As a benchmark, 31% of Germany's population were in uniform in WWII. That's probably the greatest fraction a society can devote to a project.
- lifeisstillgood 8y agoEverybody should have been in air-quotes - but whichever percentage you choose (I have heard upto 90% of all able bodied workers in Egypt were on the pyramids until harvest time) at some point it is mind boggling - how were there enough people in the UK - stonehenge was a multi-generational project on a scale that dwarfs St. paul's cathedral and similar projects - hundreds of years long and involving such a fraction of the population for what? A petrol pump for visiting space aliens would have made more sense than fifth aveneue style sunsets.