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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

Or daily scrum. But to be fair they did originate standup meetings.

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  • [–] 119 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Just because they didn't have modern technology doesn't mean they didn't have any technology. They could have used Skype for videoconferencing.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They planned ahead of decades of work rather than the next quarter

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Apparently, Giza had 20,000 laborers in addition to 16,000 support staff working on the pyramid over 20 to 30 years.

    The California High Speed Rail is the only thing comparable in the USA and that has only required 15,000 jobs since 2015.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    It was a Pyramid scheme!

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The daily scrum probably helped

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Scrum looks like a shortened or cleaned-up version of another word

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago

    They used the oldest trick in the book, wage theft

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Maybe they organised a pizza lunch for the survivors

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    No, it's been established long ago that they were workers wirh wages.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Shhh! They and their upvoters want to feel the glow of being justice heroes without looking up from their phone.

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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  • [+] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    They probably just scrum pokered really well

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Ha! You got me there. I was just about to complain that none mentioned slaves, then saw the comment that did mention them (together with aliens) which is (imho) even worst than ignoring their suffering... but here you are, making my day by reminding me that those slaves had a "fair" (/s) pay for their suffering-work :P

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Never underestimate the power of water cooler interactions -C suite

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    You remember as you kid you might have stacked rocks or Lego bricks?

    They basically did that with really really big rocks.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    Are we just gonna forget about the aliens who build pyramids from the tip down with their alien laser, guise? You're erasing our history and heritage!!1!

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Whips. Lots and lots of whips.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    While Egypt did practice slavery, evidence suggests the pyramids were built by well-fed craftsmen.

    I know BBC isn't the best source, but it's fine for this purpose: https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/were-the-egyptian-pyramids-built-by-slaves

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why is the BBC not a good source?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Like you mentioned, Ancient Egypt did have slavery, so even if there's evidence of temporary villages for paid workers, it's very hard to believe slaves were also not involved as well on projects of this scale.

    Even on the hardly off chance that there were 0 slaves near the pyramid, the whole material gathering and transport job to the pyramid site was an insanely huge amount of labour as well.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    Yeahhh, even if the evidence suggests otherwise, might as well cry SLAVES! cuz maybe there were - and possible evil should be called out even if we don't know, right? Unless you ever innocently go to prison for being Probably guilty. But oh well.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    They clearly used AOL Instant Messenger 🙄👌

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Here come the slave and alien comments

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    They had whips, massive, massive whips.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Must be aliens.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Let's gather together to figure out what went wrong. First off, hay they only waited for Microsoft technology, they could have built millions if not billions of these towers in coordination with the aliens who actually did all the work and while using our very secret 7th hand. You and I know about it but we must not let machines know.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    They had slaves. A lot of slaves.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    The pyramids being built with slaves is largely incorrect.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Maybe not the "build the pyramid" itself. Just maybe. But all the transportation, accomodations and food for the builders surely came from slaves.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Not necessarily. Most people would have been nominally free, and most economic activity would have come from them.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Did they put the blocks into place with their economic activity?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    ... yes, labor is generally a pretty key piece of economic activity. There's extensive archeological evidence about the processes of Ancient Egyptian economics, including discussions of obligation, payment, negotiation, etc.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The hell of one idea that just won't die. It was created out of thin air by sheer force of racist speculation, and known to be wrong for close to a century. Yet people still keep repeating it.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Yeah they used slavery instead

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    The masons and other specialized workers were paid, and there is a theory that many of the laborers living near Giza were paid, but no one actually knows if they were. What is known, is that slaves were used in that era, and thinking they weren't at least used in transportation of materials is naive.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    They had their own workflow optimization which was do it or die. That can motivate some people.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    A wizard did it

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    They were most likely built differently depending on the current Egyptian civilizations' take on man power/ economy.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Effectively Synergizing Backward Overflow

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Less burocracy and stupid permissions, plans and a "Let's go" was enough.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The secret ingredient then was the same as it is today.

    Slave labor.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Error, they certainly had slaves, but not for building Pyramids and Temples. The Farao knew, if he wanted a job well done, he needed professionals, he used free paid workers. The true is, it was a hard work, but in better conditions as often today

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    ♪ 🌈 s l a v e r y 🌈 ♫

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    God was their AI.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Slaves. They did it with slaves.

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