That seems to be a difficult assertion, since our Lord himself (5), which prescribes that servants be paid promptly.
“Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren or of thy strangers that are in the land within thy gates; at his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor and setteth his heart upon it; lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee.”
Our Lord does certainly not condemn the wage system, either in Zion or elsewhere, if it is practised in righteousness, for the benefit of his people. But he puts the mark of disapproval upon the sordid materialism that has no higher aim than the making and hoarding of money for selfish purposes. We can, I believe, safely read: “If they labor for money”—only—“they shall perish.”