What would be the effects on society if T.V. had been invented in the early 1900's, and had become a common consumer good for the middle class in time for the boom years of the 1920's?
"His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and...
When I visited Israel they explained the early days. That quote explains Israel's early days in OTL. Jews were coming off the boat from Europe and literally going straight into a firefight. The myth that the UN established Israel in OTL and the Arab nations sat back and let the Jews have it is...
I think the minimum realistic workweek would be 20 hours. I also don't think that production would necessarily fall. You can slowly taper down the workweek to coinside with more technology that allows more work to be done in less time. (Even in OTL we have gotten to the point where tech makes...
Say the UK really throws its full weight into establishing a Jewish state in Palestine after ww1. The only parameters are that the state is fully established by the early 1920's. How would its relations with the rest of the world (including the U.S.) be in that interwar period? Would enough Jews...
I have to say I disagree with your feelings about it not being plausible. Americans are becoming much more uncaring about those around them. Instead of trying to fix problems that cause poverty we blame it on the poor and deregulate business causing even more suffering. We cut the food stamp...
There is much more demand for alternative energy. Money is poured into renewables such as solar and wind a lot sooner meaning the tech is much farther along by the current day. You may also have significantly more nuclear power than we do today.
As far as Auto's battery tech is a lot farther...
How can you have union membership and union influence both in politics and in the workplace maintain the same numbers and clout that had in 1950 all the way through till today?
Operation Overlord is repelled and the allies are pushed back into the sea. The Soviet Union still manages to defeat Nazi Germany and absorbs all of Western Europe.
What would have happened had the government refused to do anything when it became apparent in 2008 that a financial crisis was unfolding. A republican was in office, what if he said "the market will correct itself" and took a giant step back refusing to get the government involved?
I agree with you on no WW2. My main point was that the middle class is radically different. It's much smaller due to the labor reforms of the 1930's not happening. Therefore the middle class is made up of mostly business professionals and doesn't include the many manual laborers that joined it's...
I am not asking for an explanation of how the great depression didn't happen. I'm asking what would society look like if it didn't and we just kept on going with the same society we had at that time.
Like I said the middle class is a lot smaller made up mostly of professionals, businessmen...
My thought is simple. The great depression never happens an the prosperity of the 1920's continues.
While this sounds great it has major effects on everything. My major thought is that the labor reforms of the 1930's don't happen. Everything from the legalization of unions, to the minimum...
As everyone knows both sides thought that they would win the American civil war in a matter of months. Is their a way that the Union can crush the Confederacy in the first year of the war? Maybe a competent commander of the AOTP? In this case what would reconstruction look like with such a short...
The myth of no government intervnetion
Actually David what I find interesting is how many people in the U.S. have bought this "everything was honky Dorey before government came along" attitude. Which is totally untrue and fabricated by the conservative and business interests in the last 30...