Perhaps history's most deceptive structural form. In theory the pyramid as a shape closely resembles the wide based upward inclining form of the common pile. In actuality, it is more likely a product of stack driven leaders, or simply put, corrupted piles. Built centuries before any conceivable world and intact in northeastern Africa to this day, the pyramids exist as capitalistic architectural pieces for a variety of reasons.

  Most importantly, why and how. According to most textbooks and scholars, Egyptian Pharaohs enslaved generations of laboring locals to construct extravagant resting tombs for a few bodies and few tons of treasure. If this is to be the case, then pyramids are quite grandiose expressions of greed, exploitation, and hierarchical power. Even more so than palaces and private jets, pyramids are perhaps the world's greatest monuments of frivolous decadence. Products of a society that seemingly valued gold over people. If not designed to reach for the gods, one can conceivable imagine the Pyramids as vast warehouses to maximize open storage space. Such stack orientation would allow for improved quantification of goods, and divert greater resources to security concerns – an option Pharaohs might find favorable.

  Permanence of location makes the pyramids victims of stagnation. The more difficult a pile is to move, the more suspicious we should be. Especially when dealing with ancient buildings. It used to be that strength and longevity in buildings were signs of power and wealth. Structures like the Pyramids,

  While time has been witness to increased human lifespans, the opposite can be said concerning our buildings. A decline that began when economists came to realize the value of disposablity. The image on the following page follows classic economic reasoning: A greater GDP causes greater disposable income, causes less demand for product longevity, causes less supply of product longevity, causes greater supply of disposable products, causes the state of modern America. Thus permanence in architecture only used to be an indicator of capitalist tendencies.

  Lastly, the pyramids were built on a scale of unnecessarily large proportions. The more wealth and power one has, the larger a structure one can build. This is not to say that all large constructions are of a capitalistic nature, just most of them. The design and maintenance of open source software provides a current model for how many people can collaboratively build an extensive and non-capitalist project. More concrete examples include, Stonehenge, the lost city of Atlantis, and to a lesser degree the more mysterious pyramids of the Mayans and Aztecs.