Architecture question: Do we need to bring back slavery?

Robots will take the place of slaves. Until they too get emancipated. Right now we have wage slaves on minimum wage raising a family on $15/ hour if lucky.

None of these areas had democracy at the time they were built..so you’ll have to bring back monarchy also to make that happen!! Everything else will have to wait if that has to happen which is not possible in a democratic country.

Well, slaves did build the White House and much of the US Capitol. So I guess that kind of contradicts @imrainmaker’s theory.

Don’t forget Washington D.C. in the cavalcade of public buildings erected by slaves. The Capitol building and the White House are monuments to slave labor.

Apologies to @zenvelo for my failure to read your reply.

I agree all these are great works but how do you compare it with amount of work that was required to be put for constructing something like Great wall of China or Pyramids? Do you think the slaves would have done it themselves if there was no thrust from outside? I don’t want to take away anything from them but that’s the point I wanted to emphasize that it was done out of compulsion w.r.t. the examples given by OP.

It really is marvelous when a society is allowed to regard itself as “democratic” and freedom loving while 20% of its population is enslaved.

Hoover Dam, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge, were all built by skilled union labor.

The transcontinental railroad was built by laborers that were paid, not slaves, but not that much more than that.

I live in Frank Lloyd Wright land. I don’t believe he used slaves for his designs.

Sorry, but this question is ridiculous. The architects weren’t slaves.

@elbanditoroso are volunteering to become a slave??? Which architect is going to volunteer to create as a slave???

No.
It is the mindset of the client that commissions the building that matters.
Today it is almost always “lowest cost possible”. Which means plain painted concrete cubes, with as little detail or decoration as possible. At best with painted rims around the windows.
Even with slave labour, that would not change.
And for the record, the Pyramids were not built by slaves.
They were built by willing workers, for the glory of their god king.
They were also really well supplied, sustenance wise.

The impressive buildings of yesterday were commissioned by rulers and empires that wanted to project and display their wealth and their power. Cost was not an issue.
Had they had unionised workers back then, it would not have changed the resulting buildings.

You can even see that today, with those magnificent skyscrapers being built by the Saudis.
They want to flaunt their oil money.

I thought the states were bringing it back through slave wages.