The free laborer

When it comes to freedom of one's own labor freedom comes with a cost. Freedom has said to be "freedom from the means of production" and freedom to sell one's own labor power. A free laborer will sell his labor for "equal" exchange to meet his or her basic needs. An example of this is a man will work his whole life off shore on oil rigs. He rarely sees his family maybe once every three months. However, because of his hard work on the oil rig he always supports his family with enough money for food, clothing, and shelter. The equality is understood as ignoring qualitative difference and making quantitative sameness. This is the conflict of Marx idea of let freedom pay.