THE NORMAL SOCIAL LIFE
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produces an increasing surplus of energy and opportunity, more particularly under modern conditions of scientific organisation and power production; and this through the operation of rent and of usury tends to | |———————————————| (a) release and (b) expropriate | | an increasing proportion of the population to become: | | (a) A LEISURE CLASS and (b) A LABOUR CLASS under no urgent compulsion divorced from the land and to work living upon uncertain wages |3 |2 |1 |1 2 3| | | which may degenerate degenerate | | | | into a waster class into a sweated, | | | | \ overworked, | | | | \ violently | | | | \ resentful | | | | \ and destructive | | | | \ rebel class | | | | \ / | | | | and produce a | | | | SOCIAL DEBACLE | | | | | | | which may become which may become | | a Governing the controlled | | Class (with waster regimented | | elements) in and disciplined | | an unprogressive Labour Class of | | Bureaucratic <————————-> an unprogressive | | SERVILE STATE Bureaucratic | | SERVILE STATE | | | which may become which may be the whole community rendered needless of the GREAT STATE by a universal working under various compulsory year motives and inducements or so of labour but not constantly, service together nor permanently with a scientific nor unwillingly organisation of production, and so reabsorbed by re-endowment into the Leisure Class of the GREAT STATE