This makes it sound like: "In the beginning, there was no work and everybody was happy. Then the shadowy magnates plotted to erect an 8-hour workday".

What actually happened was: "In the beginning there were 16-hour workdays seven days a week; unions struggled to create better conditions for workers, and the magnates resisted, but some basic rights were attained".

But then in 1980, enough bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL idiots neglected to vote, giving the right-wing and its' "make 'murica grate agin" union-hating, Bedtime For Bonzo b-movie actor the power to bust unions by hook and by crook, starting with air traffic controllers.

Things only stagnated or got worse from there. Allowing republican pigs in power - executive, legislative and/or judicial - to take the whole of society for a greedy joyride every four-to-eight years has assured that no change for the better takes place.