Steam Pump = Lost jobs

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There were laborers on the Nile who dipped buckets into the river, lifted them and emptied the contents into irrigation canals. This was before donkeys turned water wheels. Someone smart got the beasts to do the labor. Whenever I hear someone complaining about a job, even me, I reflect on a life lifting a bucket repetitively, everyday for an entire life. Retire? Nope, when you stop, you don't eat.

Contemplate the river flow, a goddess. She will reward you with inundation. Then you get to haul stone in exchange for beer.

War captives would be forced to do labor. Seems only right for all the fuss. Their children's children's children would still be at the riverbanks. Age of Shoddy doesn't understand hardship.

Yours,