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To: SunkenCiv

Weren’t Egyptian workers on the pyramids just “paying their taxes” by working. As I understand it was “corvee labor” work as a way of paying taxes & performing religious obligations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corv%C3%A9e

Also technically didn’t the Pharoah & priests own everything? So everyone was a slave in a sense except those top dogs. Not at all comparable to what is popularly understood as slavery.


56 posted on 06/24/2020 8:10:50 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Reily
Also technically didn’t the Pharoah & priests own everything? So everyone was a slave in a sense except those top dogs. Not at all comparable to what is popularly understood as slavery.
Really? Owning millions of human beings isn't slavery? Do tell..
That "just paying their taxes" trope is another common way of buying into the official BS.

57 posted on 06/24/2020 8:27:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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