ooli@lemmy.world to Antiwork@lemmy.world · 1 year agoI dont think it is unfairi.redd.itimagemessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1834arrow-down146
arrow-up1788arrow-down1imageI dont think it is unfairi.redd.itooli@lemmy.world to Antiwork@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square49fedilink
minus-squareSludgeyy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·1 year agoDo you want to stay and build the pyramids (get some food and a place to sleep) or go try your luck on your own in the desert? Slaves also didn’t do sharecropping, they were “paid” to do so. No one knows what the implications were for the Egyptian “workers” It doesn’t make sense to treat your workers bad because you get less work. They probably got a lot of food and water for energy. But a lot of “workers” were poor when they started and were poor when they died. Their labor did not bring wealth
Do you want to stay and build the pyramids (get some food and a place to sleep) or go try your luck on your own in the desert?
Slaves also didn’t do sharecropping, they were “paid” to do so.
No one knows what the implications were for the Egyptian “workers”
It doesn’t make sense to treat your workers bad because you get less work. They probably got a lot of food and water for energy.
But a lot of “workers” were poor when they started and were poor when they died.
Their labor did not bring wealth