re: Pyramid building--at least you get a REAL stone pyramid
It may seem crazy, devoting all those man-hours to a dead guy, but 1 or 2 or 4,000 years later you can come back and SEE the same goddamn pyramid and say "gee, how did they build it"? Must've been Aliens, or some quasi-religio-financial system we can't understand with today's rational viewpoint...
Paulson is never going to be dug up by archaeologists...
(but a few tomb raiders may visit his family vault!)