derleydoo wrote:MagsJ wrote:"Weren't the ancient active temple-based civilizations of old, like Angkor Wat and Göbekli Tepe, self-sufficient needs-based cities"
You're asking me!
More like.. putting it out there, for you to respond to and from. Should I have been more clearer? can you not work with that/with what I've given you..?
Serendipper wrote:MagsJ wrote:Well they seem to have been, and that much we know.. but why such places of old were deserted, we do not. They held 1000s of citizens, but catered for everyone's wants and needs, so why fail?
How many robots did they have? Scarcity can only be eliminated with slavery, so somebody or something has to be the slaves.
From what I've seen documented, such places did not rely on slave-based labour, but a shared labour of utilising skill sets and capabilities - why assume slavery was involved? Theses places would have been run more like monasteries, so inhabitants would have actually had a quality of life to enjoy.