In fact, one of the first recorded instances of a general strike by workers happened in ancient Egypt.
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1089/the-first-labor-strike-in-history/
I have to thank Michael S. Judge for pointing this out. But Albert Speer Jr. was involved in creating several Qatari World Cup stadiums. So, the son of Hitler's architect and prominent Nazi was involved with the mass death of thousands of Pakastanis and South Asians.
Auch ja, aber natürlich!
https://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/german-architect-albert-speer-plans-for-the-2022-world-cup-in-qatar-a-836154.html
https://www.marca.com/en/world-cup/2022/11/14/6372a7ebca4741b1608b45b9.html
YOU HAVE TO BE FUCKING KIDDING
STALIN COME THE FUCK BACK
Why do the children of fascists continue their parents legacy and the children of communists have to be such shits
https://nypost.com/2016/03/17/stalin-granddaughter-is-an-all-american-badass/
:jokermala:
2022 was the year that I realized Stalin exercised too much restraint and didn't go hard enough when it mattered.
In 1984, he founded the company Büro Albert Speer & Partner in Frankfurt am Main.[6] He was responsible for the design of Expo 2000 in Hanover, design of the Shanghai International Automobile City, and the central axis in Beijing created while serving as lead designer for the 2008 Olympics.[7][8] Speer was part of the architectural firm involved in Munich's bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics,[9] and in the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup.
He died on 15 September 2017 at the age of 83 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, after complications with a surgery performed after falling in his home.[10]
Yup. Albert Speer Jr. Is carrying out the proud tradition of his father by using slave labor to build monumental architecture. Too on the nose, right?
Even accepting the premise of the meme it's baby brained shit.
"Projects in the last few years using ongoing systems of slavery and ones that happened 5000 years ago in societies that no longer exist are equally deserving of our concern and scorn. I am very smart"
Some of the more evil and more forward thinking sophists will use it to excuse the legacy of slavery and white supremacy of the US and most of Western Europe, by trying to point out "liberal hipocrisy": oooooh the Ottomans had white slaves, but you're not outraged about that, now, are you?
there aren't even allegations of slave labor or mass deaths during the construction of either historical building vs.
widely known and confirmed slave labor & even recorded deaths in this, the modern era which we can check and know with a high level of accuracy
Also you aren't giving your money to the ancient Pharaohs if you visit Egypt.
Y-You didn’t leave a tribute for the pharaohs in the Valley of Kings? Be on the lookout for mummies and ancient curses.
Yeah, I see the coliseum as a stadium built by slavery. The roman empire is not profiting off it because it doesn't exist anymore. The world cup stadium is profiting Qatar
Herodotus explained how it was built in The Histories.
Aside from the racial subtext in the leading questions of "how could these non-white people have built this" I think it is also forgotten that before Nasser and the Soviets built the Aswan Dam the whole Nile valley was flooded for 3 or 4 months a year leaving farmers with nothing to do - perfect time to put them to work.
For the pyramids the labour was done by farmers during the off-season as well, was it not?
I mean, it depends on your view of wage labor and the Egyptian system of taxation that ultimately funded these tombs.
But as we understand it, Egyptian laborers were paid in commoditized agricultural surplus. I believe garlic was a big part of it.
The strike document specifically mentions that the workers hadn't received the beer and onions they were due.
I've read it was like an early form of make-work project, instead of having all these farmers sitting around during the wet season you pay them to build pyramids or like a big local infrastructure project like dams and roads. It would keep the economy going during the seasonal lull and give people something to do so they don't foment rebellion.
I will not be visiting due to
global tourist travel being reserved for the idle wealthymy deep commitment to labor rightsUh huh.
Even if a bunch of people did die building those ancient buildings, the societies that built them have long since gone. None of those slavers or exploiters remain alive and in power, they aren’t getting paid your tourist money in hell.
The slavers and exploiters that built the World Cup stadium are still alive, still in power, and joining in on the spectacle is financing and rewarding them
"Ackyually slavery gud yu stupid goody-two shoes!"
- Average human
