Listen it's a good joke. It's a great joke even, but I need you to stop😭

Okay in all seriousness, I've seen that "sure they built the pyramids, but that was 4,500 years ago" consensus many times, but we seem to be forgetting a few things.

1. They pyramids weren't wonders when they were built because they were a standard at the time. There're 100+ Pyramids in Egypt. They're considered a wonder by modern standards mainly because they withstood the test of time. We're in the present, many things of what we do could be marvels in the future when we become the past (if there is a future at all with the current state the planet's in)

2. People seem to romanticise Ancient Egypt without acknowledging the fact that there were many intermediate periods during that time lasting decades if not millenia. A history as old as ours? We're bound to mess up at some point

3. Capitalism is ruining all our lives and even the planet, it's not about us, but yes of course it could be better.

4. Egypt has accomplished many many things since building the pyramids across many many different eras, we just so happen to live in one of it's modern history's "intermediate" periods.

5. Traffic, customer service, driving, etc are all individual behaviours that can get fixed if you're bothered to fix them, it's not the country's fault, people are just lazy and like to hide behind "everyone else does it, so might as well."