Next to these are the laborers.

These have strikes as with us; but it is always for harder work, longer hours, or smaller pay.

The contest between capital and labor rages, but the conditions are reversed; for the grumbling capitalist complains that the laborer will not take as much pay as he ought to while the laborer thinks the capitalist too persistent in his efforts to force money upon him.
Here among the Kosekin the wealthy class forms the mass of the people, while the aristocratic few consist of the paupers.

These are greatly envied by the others, and have many advantages.

The cares and burdens of wealth, as well as wealth itself, are here considered a curse, and from all these the paupers are exempt.