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Uhh we still build things like pyramids all the time - Three Gorges Dam, Burj Khalifa, One World Trade Center - it's just we don't build pyramids themselves any
by bobthebuild123 6y ago
Uhh we still build things like pyramids all the time - Three Gorges Dam, Burj Khalifa, One World Trade Center - it's just we don't build pyramids themselves anymore.
- komali2 6y agoHm. The pyramids were an architectural and supply chain genius stroke considering when they were made. It also took fantastic human sacrifice to achieve that. One world trade center was built with the assistance of trains and semi trucks brining ore to smelters and steel to the construction site, electricity, cranes etc. Minus the slavery, have we really expended that much human effort and equivalent wealth and time on something in the modern era? The only thing I can think of is Free software products, shit like Linux.
- TrevorFancher 6y agoThis is only tangentially related, but because you are all leaning on this pyramid analogy so hard, I thought I would mention that many scholars now believe the pyramids to have been built by some type of salaried (and very skilled) labor. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramid_construction_techniques https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramid_constructio...
- maroonblazer 6y agoThe Large Hadron Supercollider?
- Const-me 6y agoPretty sure Appolo or Space Shuttle both were more expensive projects than the pyramids, even adjusted for inflation.
- pengstrom 6y agoThe Burj Khalifa was notoriously built with more or less slave labour, so maybe not the best example.
- cpach 6y agoOr maybe that was part of the point, that unfortunately some large structures are still built by people working under slave-like conditions.
- ethbr0 6y agoI don't think the Three Gorges Dam was built by something most would call a democracy.