Fun fact, the builders of the pyramids probably had better workers rights than people today. There's evidence of socialised healthcare and sick pay (and that being paid out for such chronic conditions as hangovers)
You mean people in the US today. Most Western countries have all those.
Most third world countries have that too I think.
Because they were skilled laborers brought in for the project and not slaves.
Not long before the pyramids start being built there were retainer sacrifices where your servants would be buried with you so they could serve you in the afterlife.
Those only ended because they created a convenient placeholder where dolls of your servants would be buried with you as an IOU for eternal servitude in the hereafter.
I may have missed that section of the US labor code.
Workers had paid lunches, daily rates (not hourly), weekends, and implicit time off during winter when there wasn't much daylight or much to do.
The invention of the clock changed that to an hourly wage (which employers would cheat by fixing the clock, later saved by the invention of the pocket watch), and specialisation of labour meant that any worker could be replaced to serve as a cog.
Source: a great History Civalis video titled "Work"
Source?
Equally feels like Larson could have taken it in another direction like,
"... and as the pyramid stone slipped its holding and crushed him, Ahmotep became the first example of a trickle-down economy."
Except it would be a cow and an amoeba pushing the block.
Fun fact, the builders of the pyramids probably had better workers rights than people today. There's evidence of socialised healthcare and sick pay (and that being paid out for such chronic conditions as hangovers)
You mean people in the US today. Most Western countries have all those.
Most third world countries have that too I think.
Because they were skilled laborers brought in for the project and not slaves.
Not long before the pyramids start being built there were retainer sacrifices where your servants would be buried with you so they could serve you in the afterlife.
Those only ended because they created a convenient placeholder where dolls of your servants would be buried with you as an IOU for eternal servitude in the hereafter.
I may have missed that section of the US labor code.
Workers had paid lunches, daily rates (not hourly), weekends, and implicit time off during winter when there wasn't much daylight or much to do.
The invention of the clock changed that to an hourly wage (which employers would cheat by fixing the clock, later saved by the invention of the pocket watch), and specialisation of labour meant that any worker could be replaced to serve as a cog.
Source: a great History Civalis video titled "Work"
Source?