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For all the issues with power use, I do grant it that a lot of materials and labor in needed at the same time. It isn't JUST burning up cash to make Sora videos.

But by the same measure, the Great Egyptian pyramids would have been a huge boom for work even if the final product didn't achieve much for most people.



It was a huge boom of Slave work. I wouldn't consider that a positive, either.


Isn't it pretty much known at this point that pyramids(at least the Egyptian ones) were not built by slaves?


Thanks for the correction. The experts think the builders were not slaves. Their life in the barracks was too good for slaves, and similarly were they treated in death (which was specially important there)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Egypt




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