The industrial aptitudes are pretty consistently a hindrance to the individual.

Under the regime of emulation the members of a modern industrial community are rivals, each of whom will best attain his individual and immediate advantage if, through an exceptional exemption from scruple, he is able serenely to overreach and injure his fellows when the chance offers.
It has already been noticed that modern economic institutions fall into two roughly distinct categories--the pecuniary and the industrial.

The like is true of employments.

Under the former head are employments that have to do with ownership or acquisition; under the latter head, those that have to do with workmanship or production.

As was found in speaking of the growth of institutions, so with regard to employments.
The economic interests of the leisure class lie in the pecuniary employments; those of the working classes lie in both classes of employments, but chiefly in the industrial.