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by inglor_cz 1335 days ago
This is an interesting question.

The ancient Incan Empire collected taxes in labor (basically part-time slavery, everyone had to do their 2 months a year or so), and they managed to build enormous infrastructure across the Andes in just a few decades. And in high quality. Many of the roads can still be seen, 500 years after they were built.

How did they prevent capture of this labor by corrupt local officials? I don't know.