THE NORMAL SOCIAL LIFE 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 generally tends to (a) release and (b) expropriate an increasing proportion of the population to become: (a) A LEISURE CLASS under no urgent compulsion to work and (b) A LABOUR CLASS divorced from the land and living upon uncertain wages 3 2 1 1 2 3 which may degenerate into a waster class which may degenerate into a sweated, overworked, violently resentful and destructive rebel class and produce a SOCIAL DEBACLE which may become a Governing Class (with waster elements) in an unprogressive Bureaucratic SERVILE STATE which may become the controlled, regimented, and disciplined Labour Class of an unprogressive Bureaucratic SERVILE STATE which may become the whole community of the GREAT STATE working under various motives and inducements, but not constantly, nor permanently, nor unwillingly. by reendowment which may be rendered needless by a general labour conscription together with a scientific organisation of production, and so reabsorbed into the Leisure Class of the GREAT STATE