Corporate incentives and high time preference
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Seems a little to simple of an explanation. We find these incredible structures all over the world. We can't even feasibly explain how the pyramids were built. I for one don't believe the Egyptians built them, not with the tools they allegedly had available at the time anyway.
But, people shitting in the streets with no electricity were pulling this kind of stuff of?
I really think there is more to the story of our history.
It's called division of labour. The one hauling the stones isn't the same one planning and organizing or the one doing fine ornaments.
Same division of labour led to a high food supply, feeding a lot of people to shit the streets.
If you can't feed them anymore, you send them to war, so they either die or gain new territory.
Also 500 years is a lot of time to build stuff, if you haven't electricity or other stuff. You have no industry besides food, transport, clothes, weapons (blacksmiths) and housing. Once this needs are fulfilled, any surplus wealth goes into that structures. There was no consumer industry.
Everybody is your workforce, there is no business to run, no industry, no schools, no nothing. They just work 60+ hours a week basically for food and shelter.
Yeah, I don’t buy it.
The level of precision required for so many old world structures would require far more advanced tooling than was available back then. Not only hundreds, but thousands of years ago too.
I find it interesting that the north coordinate for the tip of the Pyramid of Giza has the same numbers as the speed of light in m/s
29.9792458, 31.13418
Agreed