Medieval Iceland

Are you calling Slay Queen Elizabeth a man? Sexism much?

The point was that those technologies were what made buildings like the medieval cathedrals possible, I think.

I mean if they only had the wheel and everything else was equal, yeah, although it still would've helped. But it's a combination of having wheels, better tools, better understanding of engineering that allowed medieval Europeans to break stone into bricks, move them somewhere else and build cathedrals of complex shapes. On the other hand if European kings just wanted to pile together millions of giant rocks they'd never get it done.

well, he said that
But wheeled carts wouldnt have actually been that helpful for building the pyramids, where they built them. At best it would have made it easier to transport other supplies, like food for workers.
It did make other things possible, like he says

But if they hadnt had rollers, wheels and axels wouldnt have made the pyramids as they were possible.
Technology doesnt progress forwards to get better and more useful, it expands outwards in various different directions to create new possibilities/make previously impractical things in one area more practical. But a technology invented later isn't necessarily more powerful than one from earlier, it doesn't necessarily enable more, it may just enable things that the previous one did not.

which I just realize upon reading his post again actually reinforces the point made in

Egyptian labourers weren't slaves, they actually got paid.

What I find interesting in this debate is that the Pharaos never again built pyramds later, after the Early Dynastic Period. Pryamids actually predated all the golden eras of Ancient Egypt. Do you guys know a reason for this? Did their religious beliefs change or was there a shift in their form of government and economy that made such projects completely unfeasable?

Spending all the time and effort so fat germans in hawaiian shirts can take pictures of your gravestone 3000 years later seems like a waste of time to me

I don't know a whole lot about this subject, so take it with a grain of salt, but after the Old Kingdom there was a religious shift so that you no longer had to be buried close to the Pharaoh to be secured a place in the afterlife, due to the cult of Osiris. This lessened the importance of the old burial sites, and burial traditions in general. The really big pyramids (and most of the 'actual' pyramids) were built during the fourth dynasty. The tombs from before that were far more modest.

Speaking of ancaps, does anyone know anything about this place?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City
I've seen people use it as an example of anarcho-capitalism in practice

if they do it's the most dystopian one I've seen