I think the competition part of this writing can be related to how the elites try their very hardest to keep the working class as far down as possible. Hobbes explains this, by saying that they are doing this out of fear of someone who has worked so hard to posses something pleasant like an estate, that the opposition (the elites) would fear that one man's individual power.

Hobbes says, "it’s just a fact about human nature that however much a man may acknowledge many others to be more •witty, or more •eloquent, or more •learned than he is, he won’t easily believe that many men are as •wise as he is; for he sees his own wisdom close up, and other men’s at a distance." I completely agree with what Hobbes is saying here, that man will never outwardly admit that they believe another to be better than they are in any way shape of form. This is because they believe it will make them seem inferior or unequal to another.