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Mudokons have not only been domesticated to work with Industrial technology, but some actually live as industrialists. Albeit at the bottom rung of society, working blue collar jobs, but they're actually being paid wages.

Khanzumerz yes?

And @ Nate, fair enough, although slave labour was enforced by some of the Northern Kings when they built the great mastabas

Not much, though. Farmers and peasants got treated like dirt.

Paid in dirt is still paid.

Dirt doesn't come cheap these days.

I'd hardly call them free. Peasants were property who were included with the land they worked on during trading, and the farmers were 'obliged' to work for their pharoh (Building pyramids being an example) while the floods were up. 'Obliged' meaning 'punished if they didn't'.

Perhaps. But it's still better than being a slave, even with respect to a better quality of dirt.

Barely, they were equal in that they were possessions and hey, slaves don't get killed with their master when he dies.

They weren't really possessions; they were more alike serfs than slaves.

As for "being included with the lands they worked on", that would show they were tied to the land they worked, irrespective of it's owner, rather that they were sold as property together with the land.

Maybe your right, probably, I never did my Egyptian history besides what I did in my personal interest so my knowledge is lacking.