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Re:Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks... by kingbirdy on Monday September 21, 2020 @04:30PM (#24548095)
> Pyramids are hard to build without a super-feudal economy and society

[citation needed]

The 10th-tallest pyramid was built in Memphis, TN 30 years ago [0] and it's now used as a Bass Pro shop. Say what you will about working conditions in the US in the 90s, but I don't think it'd be fair to call it "a super-feudal economy and society".

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Pyramid

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Re:Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks... by sildur on Monday September 21, 2020 @05:13PM (#24548548)
Call me skeptic, but I’m not really sure that pyramid would be able to stand in place 4500 years. Same shape, way less durability.
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Re:Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks... by monadic2 on Monday September 21, 2020 @04:56PM (#24548379)
Yea building a pyramid is easy, you just need to invent the internal combustion engine first.

That said, pyramids seem to have been built with hired labor so the point is pretty muddy regardless.

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