In economics, wage is the generic name for all income from labor, which is itself distinct from saving placement income.
Wages are the subject of two iron laws. OneProposition_8_4 is that which determines total labor income by the distribution of total income (previous chapter). The other is also distribution, but only of total income from work.
As much as the distribution of working time is an illusion, which can only turn into the sharing of structural unemployment before contributing to its aggravation, the sharing of total labor income is a reality. The inequalities and inequalities of wage levels by professional qualification and then of individual salaries govern this sharing. The denial of this reality has, of course, its reasons for being, the first of which are the following two:
The invisible hand is more subtle. It introduces into the economic system levers of command that the social body can, country by country, push and pull so that marketable exchanges produce the effects it wants. But the progress that will be made by the conscious use of these levers is only achievable. As long as economic theory and policy leave this progress unaccomplished, remedies that aim to relieve the social body in order to ultimately degrade its health will come out of the Pandora's box of redistributions forced by the legislator.