...crock
Stripping away the jingoistic bullshit, what you're left with is a passionate defense of slave labor as the only way to build monuments to the human ego such as the Pyramids.
You've rarely been as pathologically cold-blooded as this:
There will always be need of men who work for little more than sustenance. The men will do so out of desperation...
Yes, desperation is a good thing if it profits somebody, right? So why not institutionalize desperation by maintaining conditions so that there will always be a steady supply of desperate people to work cheaply to attain the goals of the wealthy and powerful.
You've sunk below amorality into the realm of clear immorality. The only justification for a society to ever sacrifice some part of its number for the "greater good" is when a society's very survival is at stake--military self-defense. Sacrificing a few to keep the many fat dumb and happy is evil and cruel and greedy and selfish.