"WAGED AND UNWAGED instead of working and not working" - and there's something wrong with that?

The point behind that surely is that there is one hellopf a lt of work, and a lot of it the most important work there is, which doesn't involve getting wages. Saying that someone who is putting in all God's hours doing that kind of stuff is "not working" is both ludicrous and insulting. (And at the other end there are people pulling in large salaries of whiom it is equally ludicrous to refer to them as "working".)