Wages

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The wages of work is cash.The wages of cash is want more cash.The wages of want more cash is vicious competition.The wages of vicious competition is -- the world we live in.

The work-cash-want circle is the viciousest circlethat ever turned men into fiends.

Earning a wage is a prison occupationand a wage-earner is a sort of gaol-bird.Earning a salary is a prison overseer's job,a gaoler instead of a gaol-bird.

Living on your income is strolling grandly outside the prisonin terror lest you have to go in. And since the work-prison coversalmost every scrap of the living earth, you stroll up and downon a narrow beat, about the same as a prisoner taking his exercise.

This is called universal freedom.

© David Herbert Lawrence