Every paragraph is just
Bees, for those unschooled in entomology, are broken into three subsets: “Workers,” who build the hive, prepare the honey, and clean each other; “Queens,” who eat the honey and live in opulence; and “Wasps,” who fight wars at the queen’s behest and defend the hive from bears. If this sounds vaguely familiar, it should. It is nearly identical to the social structure that we as humans employ.
See how the worker bee corresponds fluidly to the human laborer. The queen, by contrast, could be mistaken for a member of our ruling class: Presidents, CEOs, publishers. The wasp is analogous to a soldier or boxer. Bears, in this case, can stand in for themselves, as they pose a grave threat to both species.
Ehhhh, I’ll watch the video later, but the joke is pretty clearly that Ricken has struggled with getting his books published, and is extrapolating the power they have over him to a society-wide class hierarchy.
Perhaps there’s a double meaning but if so the ghost writer obfuscated it to the point that I’m pretty sceptical.