• TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    I tend to think the difference is that the people building it today don’t need to build it, along with the lack of a work force. Necessity is a great motivator.

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      3 months ago

      I also doubt they had hundreds and hundreds of workers doing manual labor as part of their taxes. And modern people had slightly different ideas of what acceptable labor is.