I mean, I wouldn't want tons of labor to be spent on building a huge tomb for a single rich and powerful guy...
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The rich are certainly expending a lot of effort into making one giant tomb for all of us.
Don't you worry, I'm sure the rich will be just fine.
If it gets catastrophic enough for society to collapse, which is not at all unrealistic, the rich will be just as fucked as the rest of us. They may last a few months more, but they're fucked without their peasants.
Oh phew, I was getting worried for the poor billionares and millionares.
The rich
effort
Sounds like an oxymoron.
Ignoring the fucking 600m tall monoliths that we can build now...
And yet they don't measure up to Squidward Community College.
That is true tho
The will not last as long as the pyramids, stone is a very good building material, metals which we use is very reactive and won't last long without maintenance. If humans went extinct the first thing to go will be the metal buildings, the pyramids will last way longer.
And non of them will stand as long as the Pyramids.
Those were built to last.
Current buildings are built to be maintained and thereby turn even moar profits after construction.
Man, someone put a lot of effort into this shitpost of a site.
Tf is this lmao
The more modern "wonders" are more of a WTF kind
I resent European imperialism for killing interesting architecture.
Square: 😡
Triangle: 🤯
There were thousands of cultures with clearly distinct architecture that got washed out by European hegemony. Why are you being willfully ignorant?
Sometimes I bitterly wonder if it was humanity’s acceptance of slavery that enabled those large constructions. Things like safe working conditions didn’t exist back then.
Of course, we basically have prison slavery, but I’m sure they’d prefer the products of that labor not be so publicly visible.
The pyramids were built by skilled labour. One of the options for paying taxes was to work on public works. It was also seen as a religious event, akin to modern missionaries.
And those workers were even afforded healthcare - a rarity at the time? (I would be significantly less enthused if I found out that it only covered work-related accidents rather than all things, but even so, still not the norm for slavery.)
The pyramids were architected and overseen by skilled labor. There was a whole lot of unskilled labor involved to move those blocks across the desert and into place.
I mean, from what I've heard, prison slavery is really widespread in the US, and apparently (this one I'm not really sure about) prisoners are currently being used to put out the fires in LA.
And besides that, we (westeners) can nicely use all the poor countries we fucked over for all our slavery needs. As uncomfortable as it is to admit, the phone I'm using to type this most likely has had at least some slavery involved.
(P.S. as another commenter pointed out, the pyramids weren't built with slave labor. The ancient Greeks came to look at the pyramids much later and thought they were built by slaves because that's how the Greeks built their stuff.)
Not for the pyramids
Gelderloos argues in Worshiping Power that early states had to convince people of their superiority. Now that states are the norm and it's barely possible to live in a stateless society, this isn't necessary anymore.
Mayonnaise 101 is really something.
I've graduated from the Squidward school of hard knocks but Im trying to model myself as more of a Squilliam these days.
Any idea where the Squilliam School of Applied Fuckery is located?