By one of the dialectical turns whose secret is only the great projects of instrumentation, it has been declared in accordance with the very essence of freedom that some were free to use the others, and the others free to be used by the former as means. That magnificent meeting of two freedoms is called a salary.

Social life is just another name for collective passionate life. Recognizing its deeply structured nature does not prevent, on the contrary, taking up the wage problem "from the passions", to ask again how the small number of individuals in capital manage to get the large number of individuals working for themselves. ; under what different regimes of mobilization, and with the possibility, perhaps, of reconciling such disparate events as: employees go to work so as not to deteriorate (= eat); their consumer pleasures compensate a little (or a lot) for their work efforts; some squander their life at work and seem to take advantage of it; Others resolutely adhere to the operation of their company and express their enthusiasm; one day they turn to revolt (or throw themselves out of the window).