I'm in the middle of reading "The Jungle", by Upton Sinclair. The working conditions described within were pretty cruel and totalitarian. However it's also easy to compare and contrast the corporate greed and suffering within to modern day concepts like minimum wage and see that we've obviously made tons of progress and things continue to get better. Like all extremist positions, though, this will never be enough for Noam Chomsky - from where he sits, reality itself is totalitarian. How dare humans have to work for their food? What a tragedy it is that wolves must run to hunt their prey, and that this prey must die an agonizing death so someone else can live! At some point you have to suffer in life; if you agree with this then "wage-based servitude" doesn't sound so bad, and modern white-collar work is really only "wage-based servitude" by technical definition.