'None of these people produce anything themselves, but by means of
cunning and scheming they contrive between them to obtain possession of
a very large portion of the things produced by the labour of others.

'Number three stands for those who work for wages or salaries, doing
unnecessary work. That is, producing things or doing things
which--though useful and necessary to the Imbecile System--cannot be
described as the necessaries of life or the benefits of civilization.
This is the largest section of all. It comprises Commercial
Travellers, Canvassers, Insurance agents, commission agents, the great
number of Shop Assistants, the majority of clerks, workmen employed in
the construction and adornment of business premises, people occupied
with what they call "Business", which means being very busy without
producing anything. Then there is a vast army of people engaged in
designing, composing, painting or printing advertisements, things which
are for the most part of no utility whatever, the object of most
advertisements is merely to persuade people to buy from one firm rather
than from another. If you want some butter it doesn't matter whether
you buy it from Brown or Jones or Robinson.'

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| Tramps | Exploiters | All those | |
| Beggars | of Labour | engaged in | |
| Society | Thieves | unnecessary | |
| People | Swindlers | work | |
| Aristoc- | Pickpockets | | |
| racy | Burglars | | |
| Great | Bishops | | |
| Landowners | Financiers | | |
| All those | Capitalists | | |
| possessed | Share- | | |
| of | holders | | |
| hereditary | Ministers | | |
| wealth | of religion | | |
+------------+-------------+-------------+-------------------------+

During the delivery of this pert of the lecture, the audience began to
manifest symptoms of impatience and dissent. Perceiving this, Owen,
speak