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Well, Michelangelo got paid for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel as well. Who's "they" and what's your point?
That people weren't tricked into work. They were paid for it and likely held great pride in it.
I reacted to, paraphrased: "you can't control people with sun worship".
During his reign, Akhenaten instated monotheistic worship of Aten - the sun disc - and did away with all other gods worshipped in Egypt at that time. Whether or not the workers who built his monuments were paid well I do not know - I suspect you have the Diary of Merer in mind, but remember that Khufu's and Akhenaten's respective reigns were more than a thousand years apart - as a pharaoh, Akhenaten could most certainly control people. And if you believe religion can be used as a means to control people, this is definitely a historic example of sun worship being used to this end, wouldn't you agree?