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I don’t think they said anything like what you said they said. They said it’s a Wonder. Like, I don’t think it’s right to spend thousands of lives and decades
by IggleSniggle 4y ago
I don’t think they said anything like what you said they said. They said it’s a Wonder.
Like, I don’t think it’s right to spend thousands of lives and decades of time of slave-labor building the Great Pyramids, but it’s absolutely a Wonder, and nobody denies this.
This library project is absolutely a Wonder, however right or wrong you might ultimately believe it to be, and as the poster said, it has been attempted many times and never come anywhere close to this effort.
- mhb 4y agoFair enough. I guess I assumed that in the context of a community that surely appreciates the marvel that is the internet, there was a secondary objective in mentioning it.
- monista 4y agoSorry for nitpicking, but it's believed now that Great Pyramids were built by well payed, well fed laborers, not by slaves.
- Double_a_92 4y agoIt eventually still boiled down to some kind of forced labour. Feeding those laborers for decades consumed ressources, which the rulers couldn't just magically conjure out of thin air... so e.g. farmers had to probably suffer from that.