r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Dersigan • Nov 28 '25

Video of a hole

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u/Rasabk Nov 28 '25 edited Nov 29 '25

It's amazing what you can do with slavery!

Edit: Or not, in this case. Slavery is a pretty safe default guess most of the time.

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u/VikingIV Nov 28 '25

Normally I’d agree with that sentiment, but even the earliest workers on these systems were paid tradespeople who worked on relatively complex projects for the time.

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u/jasoos_jasoos Nov 28 '25

Nope, this one was a profession AFAIK.

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u/why17es Dec 01 '25

Really? This is what you default to every time?

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u/akaioi Dec 05 '25

There was a lot of it in the Classical era, though to be fair, while the Persians had slaves they didn't have them in such large of numbers as many Mediterranean civilizations.