Very true, he said.
Then there is another class which is always being severed from the mass.
What is that?
(2) The orderly or wealthy class who are fed upon by the drones. They are the orderly class, which in a nation of traders is sure to be the richest.
Naturally so.
They are the most squeezable persons and yield the largest amount of honey to the drones.
Why, he said, there is little to be squeezed out of people who have little.
And this is called the wealthy class, and the drones feed upon them.
[565] That is pretty much the case, he said.
(3) The working class who also get a share. The people are a third class, consisting of those who work with their own hands; they are not politicians, and have not much to live upon. This, when assembled, is the largest and most powerful class in a democracy.