Okay I need to correct this before I lose my mind
Wrong and oversimplified. Just because they didn't have modern OSHA didn't mean they did not have any kind of safety regs. Rope harnesses and scaffolding are well-recorded.
Wildly oversimplified. Weekends as we understand them may not have been a thing, but there were definitely shifts and designated days off because people have families and contrary to popular belief a lot of cultures had actual paid labourers and artisans building things, and they tended to have guilds and organisations that REQUIRED time off to be given. Yes, including slaves, because slavery prior to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade varied depending on culture and practice but slaves were still considered to be actual HUMAN BEINGS and therefore to have HUMAN NEEDS AND LIMITS (seeing slaves as not fully/properly human was an advent of the T-AST and a product of semi-modern racial categorisation, and is an anomaly on a historical scale, not the rule)
Deceptive, also fits under point 1: "a ton of fucking people", especially when frequently large structures involved entire communities, and child involvement was much less likely to be in a Victorian Workhouse way and far more likely to be "you're old enough to be your parent's apprentice so you learn the craft alongside", or like running errands for family on the worksite
Also filed under point 1. Never said everyone was a willing participant, just that were a lot of people involved. Also, surprisingly, not as common as people often think!
"The king said so" is a WHY, not a HOW. The same goes for religious reasons btw, because while that is the motivation for the project, it doesn't actually mean anyhing re: the process and techniques of building things, which is what this post is actually talking about
First off, this is only tangentially related to the original post. Secondly, it's incorrect. History DOES, in fact, record the failed megaprojects, often in bitchy letters from the people responsible for actually building the thing to the person in charge. The difference is that, frequently, the actual structure either gets rebuilt correctly so we don't see the fuckup stage and only know about it from said letters, or it's disassembled to reuse the materials, but some, such as the Bent Pyramid or the visible frame half again as high as the façade on the Pantheon, do actually remain for us to see. This is part of that whole fucking around and finding out I was talking about
This addition has been annoying me for months and recently got reblogged by a popular blog and I needed to say SOMETHING because it was pissing me off.
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