One of the things that makes wage labor counter to an enthusiasm for life is how it treats ends as disconnected, and therefore interchangeable with processes. For the average worker the process is disconnected from any project they can get invested in, someone flipping burgers is structurally dissuaded from giving a fuck about process their involved in. The only investment is getting a paycheck so that they can actually pursue their desires. This makes labor interchangeable with any other, the end of making money could be tied to any process, the process is devalued.