It has always seemed like there was a real libertarian streak among silicon valley types, but this kind of historical revisionism sounds very "southern republican" to my ear.

The thing is that people fought and died for the, if this is to be believed, trivial concessions that management made to workers. You know, those same trivial concessions that management made with little or no animosity that stemmed from entrenched political viewpoints or historical precedents.

This article is the labor relations version of Jesus riding a dinosaur.

Forgive my ignorance, but doesn't this Paul Graham guy have something to do with this site?