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Just had a weird thought about all the work that goes into cutting, moving and laying each and every stone of the pyramids. It's already so much work for the whole thing that it doesn't even compute. But it's also a ton of work just for one stone before scaling it up to the whole thing. After all that work, they laid the very first one and then had to consider how many more were to be laid after that. Some guy definitely wanted to die right there.
When you can literally see your god in front of you, you do what he wants.
The god in question
Hey man, if I got high off of moldy grain and my cat told me to build a massive pyramid, I just might.
Also they got paid.
A job is a job.
Besides, everyone is there, and what else would you do during the dry season?
Wet season. The Nile floods during the wet season and you can't plant crops until it recedes.