> We aren't that far off from the Egyptians that were using hundreds of thousands of slaves per pyramid. It's a good thing that we've transcended the necessity

> We aren't that far off from the Egyptians that were using hundreds of thousands of slaves per pyramid. It's a good thing that we've transcended the necessity for hundreds of thousands of slaves when raising buildings, don't you think? False, they were skilled, paid laborers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramid_construction_techniques http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramid_construction_t... Apologies for being irrelevant to the main point, but this is a tired myth.