> by the same workers who built them
who were, by and large, slaves ...
> Essentially, humans have always been garbage.
I don't really consider them too garbage-y for trying to give even a little F.U. to their masters.
who were, by and large, slaves ...
> Essentially, humans have always been garbage.
I don't really consider them too garbage-y for trying to give even a little F.U. to their masters.
They weren't slaves
So there is still compulsion here, and the workers would often have had similar emotions and incentives as slaves. The fact that the workers had more freedom probably gave them more ability to act on that than if they had been proper slaves.
When you put it like that, it sounds an awful lot like slavery.