The work ethic as we have known it is the main artery through the underground-octopus arms of a rhizomatic.

Over 20 years I traced about 36 themes of that rhizome. Amplified its silent premises, a delicate archaeology.

Why do CEOs talk of a "playing field"-- indeed a '"level playing field" while everyone alse is moved around, pawns on a working field? Is it because workers aren't players but indeed pawns? And that the mythical "level playing field" automatically excludes workers?

Why is it an "incentive" to give rich companies money, and an "incentive" to take money away from the poor? Whose interests are being represented by these actions?

Depth psychologists might offer that those CEOs--workaholics like Bill G, themselves are pawns of "self-replicating pattern integrities" made of unconscious old values engendered from unconscious old traumas-- for instance the child and adult abuse of the Industrial Revolution, operating today from the underground bunkers of denial and suppression. Jung: "you can't change what is not conscious."

Jim Leonard, in Sondra Ray's Celebration Of Breath: "The more someone tries to tell you about 'the hard realities of life' or some such thing, the more suppressed material that person has."

Perhaps 300 years of suppressed material, since what parents do not deal with, children inherit as "reality."