Wage labor is such that, while most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
Wage labor is exploitation. This becomes clear when we recognize that saying you make $8.50 an hour is just a nicer way to say you sell an hour of your life for $8.50.
Wage labor is such that the essence of slavery consist in taking the product of another's labor by force, be that through the ownership of the man or the ownership of the money that the man must get to live.
Wage labor is the wrongheaded idea that to make a man work there is no other way than to hold gold in front of his eyes.