A somewhat confusing title given the Cooperative movement traces its roots to the Rochdale Pioneers, also from Greater Manchester.

And also back to Italy which had some proto worker coops.

It also ignores the underlying cultural aspects in Spain which helped Mondragon et al flower.

I want to vehemently disagree, stating that Zuckerberg deserves the spoils of Facebook's success more than any of the interchangeable programmers and businesspeople that worked for him.

...but I'm having a hard time making the same argument for all those who came before Zuckerberg, inventing TCP and GIF and even Geocities and MySpace.

With all those parts existing, wasn't it just a matter of time until someone would come up with something like FB, or better? Doesn't that make Zuck just as interchangeable as his database administrators and trademark lawyers?