ABSTRACT
Being selected as qualified and fit and made docile, embodied selves are tuned to the requirements of the occupation they follow. This enables people to sustain the effort required without ill-effect, at least in the short run. Money is a symbolic as well as a material incentive, and so its effect on behaviour presupposes a range of understandings. The circumstances that are of interest to begin with are entirely to do with the ‘free market’, not with any legal, political or administrative regime that is imposed on it. How much freedom one has depends on the extent to which one can afford to leave or not to enter the market. Having capital (a store of wealth) provides a cushion against having nothing but labour or its product to sell and having to sell it to live.
