[psunavy03]

It's like the theory of "they must have been slaves driven to work by their nobles!" When I believe it turned out they were just blue-collar Ancient Egyptian workers with families and paychecks who thought they'd be doing a good thing by honoring the Pharoah.

[jncfhnb]

They weren’t subhuman slave class. But it’s far from clear they had economic agency.

[Orbital_Armada]

Although the laborers working on pyramids and tombs were initially mostly corvee labor, they did evolve into a more specialized and privileged class of artisans over the (very long) course of Egyptian history. The first recorded labor strike in history occurred in a village of such artisans over lack of pay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_el-Medina_strikes