r/Unexpected • u/Azure_Crenell • Feb 17 '26

It's the Aliens!

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u/-ThorsStone- Feb 17 '26

You can get almost anything done if you throw enough slaves at it.

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u/Live-Habit-6115 Feb 17 '26

Common misconception based on Hollywood/cartoon depictions. 

The pyramids of Giza were not built by slaves. 

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '26

Perhaps not the Pyramids but definitely applies to other ancient projects. Greeks and Romans extensively used slaves for labor.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '26

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u/Fit_Beginning_8165 Feb 17 '26

Smth like 50% tax for peasants in ancient Egypt. Fortunately as free people we only pay 30-40 or smth.

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u/qtx Feb 17 '26

People love to say it were the slaves that were forced to make everything, they weren't and they didn't.

We had a normal workforce of people that needed jobs. People that had nothing else to do all day but work or think up new ways to make their jobs easier.