Read about the Great Railroad Strike of 1977.
It would be a mistake to take historical accounts at face value. They are written by humans, not some objective entity.
If your argument is “consider this anecdote”, and you can’t imagine historical analysis of economic questions other than through non-quantitative hand-selected case studies, you’re falling into the same trap.
It would be a mistake to take historical accounts at face value. They are written by humans, not some objective entity.