Exactamundo. Building the pyramids was the ancient Egyptian stimulus plan. By creating hundreds of thousands of government jobs, leaders hoped to jumpstart an economy slowed by climate change.
Post 13 was meant as a reply to 11.
Apologies.
FWIW, there is archaelogical evidence that the pyramids were built using mostly labor during the agricultural off season.
Those damn peasants are just sitting around anyway, might as well put em to work at something useful. “Useful” dependent on definition, of course.
Wanna know what scares me? Keeps me up at night? That makes a ton of sense to me. And they're all dead.