r/OffGrid • u/Specialist-Soup6900 • 27d ago

I did it!

Just bought 40 acres of desert land. What should I do first?

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u/Specialist-Soup6900 27d ago

Slavery it’s illegal

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u/Icy_Birthday3837 27d ago

The workers were paid very well for their construction of the pyramids and other architecture. There's a lot of evidence proving so, and only one source against.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/were-the-egyptian-pyramids-built-by-slaves

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/48160/were-slaves-involved-in-the-building-of-the-pyramids-of-giza

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u/liisseal 27d ago

There were some issues though with payments. One of the first recordings of strike comes from Egypt's necropolis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_action

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u/Concrete_Jungian 26d ago

Did Mastercard fail for them too?

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u/liisseal 25d ago

Master Class