even his wage is hardly an end or consequence…
Page 243 even his wage is hardly an end or consequence of his labor. He might, and frequently does equally well or ill perform anyone of 100 other tasks as a condition of receiving payment. The prevailing conception of instrumentality is profoundly validated by the habit of applying it to cases, like the above, where, instead of an operation of means, there is an enforced necessity of doing one thing as a coerced anecdote of the occurrence of another thing which is wanted.
— from Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit) · Pragmatism edited by Louis menand