>The tremendous economic development leads to a social stratification of people. The small craftsman slowly dies out, and as a result the worker's possibility of achieving an independent existence becomes rarer and rarer; in consequence the worker becomes visibly proleterianised. There arises the industrial "factory worker" whose most essential characteristic is the fact that he hardly ever is in a position to found an existence of his own in later life. He is property-less in the truest sense of the word. His old age is a torment and can scarcely be designated as living.
