John Moses said "This country is a pyramid with the weak at the bottom." But I threw it back to him. "The strong are at the bottom, holding this country up." And that is the truth. Like all slugs, the truth hit him like a pinch of salt.
--from Dear Brother 8

JohnMoses said America was a pyramid, with the weak at the bottom and the strong at the top. LegalTenderCoxey said much the same thing. LewisFelt said America was a pyramid where "gold flowed up and shit flowed down."

Memphis is the site of a large pyramid, in imitation of the Memphis of ancient Egypt. Pyramids are built by slaves, and serve as tombs for kings.

The Florida land boom of the 1920s, where Barron Collier made his fortune, was essentially a giant pyramid scheme. IAM appears to be a pyramid scheme of some kind too. Some say the whole stock market, indeed the whole American economy, can be seen as a pyramid scheme.

The GreatSeal of the United States features the famous Masonic pyramid, around which there is no end of occult lore. I assume AgentPyramid was named for this device. That pyramid is also the trigger symbol ReeseBeulay was given when brainwashed to kill the WickedWitchOfTheWest.