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The Grind (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They were built by farmers during downtime, they were treated well.

The Pharaoh's government would take a tithe of the farmer's crops during the growing season and hold it in reserve. Farmers then got a share of their deposits back in exchange for doing this backbreaking work in pursuit of the vanity projects of the wealthiest merchant and priest families (of which the Pharaoh's was the pinnacle).

Idk what "treated well" is supposed to mean in this context. They were treated about as well as any other laboring people. But the average life expectancy of an Egyptian laborer was late-30s to early-40s. They worked until their bodies gave out and then their kids took over.

I wouldn't call any kind of Bronze Age agricultural society benevolent to its working class.

[–] TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're generalizing a few millennia of civilization. That doesn't really make sense.

The low life expectancy in Egypt seems cherry picked from one search result you found? Seems to be about a single village with data from about a century? Might as well have been disease. For all its fertility, farming in water comes with big downsides.

And Egypt has always been surrounded by nomadic tribes. Leaving the kingdom must have been so much easier than leaving capitalism today. But people chose for stability which the pharaoh provided. They weren't slaves, unlike the actual slaves which they did own.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The low life expectancy in Egypt seems cherry picked from one search result you found? Seems to be about a single village with data from about a century?

A bit more than that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Grain:_A_Deep_History_of_the_Earliest_States

Might as well have been disease.

Animal husbandry is the root cause of a host of common diseases.

And Egypt has always been surrounded by nomadic tribes. Leaving the kingdom must have been so much easier than leaving capitalism today.

Traveling by foot across the wilderness into a civilization you know nothing about - not the language nor the customs nor anyone eager to accept you as a foreign migrant?

Trivial, really. They just used Egypt GPS.