• ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      There’s actually a belief that the pyramids weren’t built by slaves, but rather paid workers during the seasons when fields couldn’t be worked.

      In the modern era we’d call it a job program.
      Government needs something done, unemployed workers need to be kept busy for social order, and fed so they’re ready when the fields are workable again.