3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror

Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by IggleSniggle on Sunday September 25, 2022 @02:30PM (#32974414)

I don’t think they said anything like what you said they said. They said it’s a Wonder.

Like, I don’t think it’s right to spend thousands of lives and decades of time of slave-labor building the Great Pyramids, but it’s absolutely a Wonder, and nobody denies this.

This library project is absolutely a Wonder, however right or wrong you might ultimately believe it to be, and as the poster said, it has been attempted many times and never come anywhere close to this effort.

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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by monista on Sunday September 25, 2022 @07:51PM (#32977725)

Sorry for nitpicking, but it's believed now that Great Pyramids were built by well payed, well fed laborers, not by slaves.

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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by Double_a_92 on Monday September 26, 2022 @02:57AM (#32980252)

It eventually still boiled down to some kind of forced labour. Feeding those laborers for decades consumed ressources, which the rulers couldn't just magically conjure out of thin air... so e.g. farmers had to probably suffer from that.

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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by mhb on Sunday September 25, 2022 @03:20PM (#32974979)

Fair enough. I guess I assumed that in the context of a community that surely appreciates the marvel that is the internet, there was a secondary objective in mentioning it.

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