In Emmanuel Sieyès’ the What is the Third Estate he states, “Only the lucrative and honorary positions are held by members of the privileged order…”(156). Both Spencer and Sieyès have similar thoughts in that the upper class are the ones that hold most, if not all, the power and wealth. Sieyès repeatedly mentions the word “privileged” which is referring to the upper class and those who do not have to work as much to get what they want. He also states the questions, “what is the third estate?” multiple times and one of his responses he says that third estate is everything, everything that is in a constant struggle and that is oppressed (156). Spencer says, “Every man with sympathy in him must feel that hunger and pain and squalor must be prevented”