Meme Thread for Memes and other assorted Lulz

[Okeefenokee]

They literally didn't have ownership of the fruits of their labor.

The Pharaoh owned everything.

Most people don't get paid in capital in America either. Thus, they don't 'own' the fruits of their labor.

Punch in, get your free beer, and quit resenting the Pharaoh for being a superior god-king you grabber.

They literally didn't have ownership of the fruits of their labor.

The Pharaoh owned everything.

Implying they went to the invaders when the Sea People came for their land. They owned something alright. Wether you want to admit it or not they clearly felt like they had a stake in society when they drove the invaders OUT OUT OUT

I don't know what the hell you two are on about. Everything in Egypt belonged to the Pharaoh. Merchants were agents of the state acting as custodians of the Pharaoh's goods.

In theory all the land seems to have belonged to the gods, and to the pharaoh as representative of Horus. It was regarded as communal property administered by the king, and was given to his subjects for usufruction

This is not different at all from medieval kings sending out registrars to make records of the king's property in the registry.

Nor is it different from paying registration fees on your vehicle every year. Key word, regis.

None of this shit is new.

[Speaker to Animals]

That book on bicameralism has me really wondering if the Egyptian people had any choice in the beehive society at all, honestly.

It's why they put all the treasure in the giant pyramids. Nobody would have thought it would be a great idea to break in and steal it. But when people became conscious humans, the tombs suddenly had to be hidden.. something to think about..

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

I don't know what the hell you two are on about. Everything in Egypt belonged to the Pharaoh. Merchants were agents of the state acting as custodians of the Pharaoh's goods.

How much of McDonald's does the fry cook typically own?

[Penner]

I don't know what the hell you two are on about. Everything in Egypt belonged to the Pharaoh. Merchants were agents of the state acting as custodians of the Pharaoh's goods.

How much of McDonald's does the fry cook typically own?

Nothing and if they try to keep any of the fries and/or chicken nuggets they will get busted and fired.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

I don't know what the hell you two are on about. Everything in Egypt belonged to the Pharaoh. Merchants were agents of the state acting as custodians of the Pharaoh's goods.

How much of McDonald's does the fry cook typically own?

Nothing and if they try to keep any of the fries and/or chicken nuggets they will get busted and fired.

I don't think they even get to keep the uniform.

Plus, no free beer.

[Penner]

How much of McDonald's does the fry cook typically own?

Nothing and if they try to keep any of the fries and/or chicken nuggets they will get busted and fired.

I don't think they even get to keep the uniform.

Plus, no free beer.

The most important thing to come out of this thread- no free beer today.

[Okeefenokee]

I don't know what the hell you two are on about. Everything in Egypt belonged to the Pharaoh. Merchants were agents of the state acting as custodians of the Pharaoh's goods.

How much of McDonald's does the fry cook typically own?

So, you're trying to equate Egyptian law, where no one other than the Pharaoh legally owned anything, to the American capitalist phenomenon that is the most profitable private food enterprise that ever existed on this planet, ever.

Get apeman on the phone. Retard peak is rising faster than plate tech-tonics should allow.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

I don't know what the hell you two are on about. Everything in Egypt belonged to the Pharaoh. Merchants were agents of the state acting as custodians of the Pharaoh's goods.

How much of McDonald's does the fry cook typically own?

So, you're trying to equate Egyptian law, where no one other than the Pharaoh legally owned anything, to the American capitalist phenomenon that is the most profitable private food enterprise that ever existed on this planet, ever.

Get apeman on the phone. Retard peak is rising faster than plate tech-tonics should allow.

You said that the laborers not owning the fruits of their labor was the important distinction. Apparently there is a different distinction you find more relevant.

Most profitable food chain or best god-king tomb the world has ever seen... makes little difference to the person humping stones or running the fryer I should think. Not bad work exactly, either one, but you don't get the fruits either way.

[Speaker to Animals]

They didn't really have laws, though. Not in the sense that we think of the word. The pharaoh received instructions from the gods. He delegated those instructions down through his hierarchy. There were stated rules, but they were more like instructions that people simply followed.

It's one of those weird things about the theory of bicameralism that will blow you mind. You can sort of see where consciousness emerges by the sudden development of more complex legal systems.

When people became conscious, the theory goes, society collapsed and had to be rebuilt around the use of force to *make* people behave.

It puts the Sea Peoples and even the Assyrians into perspective. What if the Assyrians did all those horrible things because they didn't believe the humans they were torturing actually had a soul? Imagine you, as a conscious human, encounter large numbers of humans that completely lack that sense of identity and a cognitive space, and sort of lived out a robotic existence. You might grow to find them unnerving and despise them in the same way the Spanish felt about the Inca but not so much the Mexica.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Imagine you, as a conscious human, encounter large numbers of humans that completely lack that sense of identity and a cognitive space, and sort of lived out a robotic existence.

Kill them immediately I suppose. I think it is safe to assume I should murder people whose subjective existence is incomprehensible to me, being a conscious human.