> But, those homes wouldn't still be around and remembered millenia later.

Yes, but they'd have homes. Who's to say if a massive monument is better than ten thousand happy families?

> Who's to say if a massive monument is better than ten thousand happy families?

It's not. The pyramids have never been of any use to anyone (except as a tourist attraction).

I'm referring merely to the magnitude of the project, not to whether it was good for mankind.