Unskilled workers - GIF

[Hoosiersmoker]

Racism is a manufactured concept created by individuals that considered themselves to be superior because of certain physical characteristics they shared and to exclude individuals they considered inferior because of certain other physical characteristics. Color, size, shape, hair, eyes even some genetic differences do not indicate different races, just differences. The idea of there being different races of people is fundamentally incorrect and antiquated at best and now only perpetuated by those that consider there to be benefit from the concept or still feel somehow superior and therefore need the concept to prop their misinformed, baseless ideals. Don't take my word for it. Look it up in Britannica (or your favorite source for actual facts) or here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_race_concepts
Notice the statement in the first paragraph "the concept of distinct human races in a biological sense has become obsolete".
Of course there are still those that reject logic and fact and hold to the idea that Wikipedia and other undeniably accurate sources are liars or put forth by those few dozen that want to deceive the masses to take control and rule the planet.

[IntheGroove]

There are two types of people, those that divide people into groups and those that don't...

[marksbug]

yes the slave masters will do anything to get then stay in control.then they start steeling,scamming and acting as they have all their 47 year useless career of being a public slave master in training.

[Jon]

Possibly staged, but still well done.

This one reminds me of how Mesoamerican cultures lacked the wheel. Artifacts point to their use of wheels in children's toys, and as pottery wheels, but not for transport. One argument says that using wheels for transport also requires draft animals, which they lacked. They had independently developed written languages, and basic metalworking (gold and a little copper). But no wheelbarrows?

[marksbug]

you dont need draaft animals. there are plenty of daft people that should be doing the work of those poor defenceless animals that have lost the ability to feed them selvs...hmm I wonder are the animals democrats? just kidding there not all like their elected officials.

[mklotz]

This one reminds me of how Mesoamerican cultures lacked the wheel. Artifacts point to their use of wheels in childrens' toys, and as pottery wheels, but not for transport. One argument says that using wheels for transport also requires draft animals, which they lacked. They had independently developed written languages, and basic metalworking (gold and a little copper). But no wheelbarrows?

Wooden objects don't survive well in the moist climate of Central America. Egypt had a good climate for wood survival but utilitarian objects like tools are seldom found as grave goods. The Egyptians wrote and drew on almost every available vertical surface yet they seldom portrayed construction work; most of the graffiti is religious magic stuff. (You would think that a major construction project, like a pyramid, would merit a few pictures of how it was done but, so far, none have been found.) The Maya, Aztecs and Incans built on a scale comparable to the Egyptians yet their inscriptions also avoid how-to texts in favor of more religious malarkey.

[Actually, it's the axle, not the wheel that is the big invention. The ancients were using wheel-like rollers to move heavy loads long before somebody hit on the idea of attaching roller slabs to a stick and placing a load on it.]

[Jon]

[Actually, it's the axle, not the wheel that is the big invention. The ancients were using wheel-like rollers to move heavy loads long before somebody hit on the idea of attaching roller slabs to a stick and placing a load on it.]

This is a great point about the axle.

I think there had to be isolated instances of Mesoamerican use of carts or barrows of some sort, even if their use wasn't commonplace, or they weren't formally "invented". It just doesn't seem enough of a cognitive leap from a roller to a wheel that nobody would figure it out.

[mklotz]

This is a great point about the axle.

I think there had to be isolated instances of Mesoamerican use of carts or barrows of some sort, even if their use wasn't commonplace, or they weren't formally "invented". It just doesn't seem enough of a cognitive leap from a roller to a wheel that nobody would figure it out.

Yes, indeed. Wheels and pulleys seem so intuitive once one sees rollers and ropes. Construction tools didn't achieve then the cultural significance that tools receive today so they weren't preserved as icons or grave goods. Even when the occasional tool was interred, the fact that it was made of a perishable material meant we'd never see it.

Archaeologists conjecture that the Egyptians erected obelisks by having pullers on the ground pull on ropes strung over A-frames to get the necessary angle to pull the obelisk vertical. If one pictures that, it's not much of a leap to visualize a crude crane.

Also, the Egyptians had beautifully engineered war chariots. They understood how to construct strong, light-weight spoked wheels and suspensions suited to using the chariot floor as a platform for archers firing on the run. If they could demonstrate this level of sophistication for war/sport building wheel barrows or other wheeled devices would have been a doodle. It's true that barrows wouldn't have been useful in the sandy desert but, if you can build the removable scaffolding to build a pyramid, temporary clay or even stone roads would be easy if you were going to spend thirty years at the construction site.

The take away here is: our estimates of the technological sophistication of early peoples are very low because of the durability of their tools and cultures that did not ascribe high value to the efforts of their workers.

[marksbug]

well atleast he's worken...or steeling a wheelbarrow&brick...witch may be why he is carrying them so no tracks are left to fallow. now thats using your brains!!!

[Haroun]

well atleast he's worken...or steeling a wheelbarrow&brick...witch may be why he is carrying them so no tracks are left to fallow. now thats using your brains!!!

I heard a story as a kid that a coworker of my grandfather's was walking out each friday from the Bayway refinery in Linden NJ with a wheel barrow full of broken brick, rocks, short pieces of construction lumber & crap like that. The guard would check it & find nothing of value & wave him through the gate. Then they found out he was stealing wheelbarrows