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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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.