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Indeed, Pyramids have not been built with human rights in mind

• shiroiushi 3y ago
  Do we know this for sure? For all we know, the pyramid laborers were paid a fair wage for the time.
  • rsynnott 3y ago
    They were almost certainly built with corvée labour; most people would consider this slavery today (except possibly in the context of military conscription), but not at the time.
    • shiroiushi 3y ago
      Very interesting; I didn't know about this before. Reading the wikipedia article about it, it really doesn't seem like what we think of as "slavery" though. It actually seems more like a form of taxation, but instead of paying the government with money, you pay with your time and labor.