The king says they want a pyramid. The middle managers get you all in for a stand up and tell you they need those blocks ready by the end of the quarter. You make the blocks. The transport team move the blocks to the site. The block laying team complain your blocks aren’t good enough and you have an argument about block standards. 20,000 people are put to death. The pyramid is completed.
It's odd that so many on HN don't see that it doesn't happen. 99.99% of societies don't manage anything like that, and the Inca did it in unique ways with relatively very limited technology.
