AHC: Europe avoids both WWI and WWII, but automation crisis in 1980s?

. . . all those "guest workers" from Eastern Europe? . . .
It will be claimed that the guest workers are performing jobs the citizens in the richer countries simply refuse to do. This will be yet one more thing which makes it all the harder to get past the job thing.

The guest workers themselves will be vulnerable to a number of greater or lesser abuses, subject to how ethical the various corporations are as well as simply the luck of the draw.

We'll be a long way from a union world in which workers enter into negotiations with, say, 40% of the power! :p
 
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If you avoid WW1 (and without WW1 it's highly unlikely WW2 as we know it would happen) then world is going to be a markedly different place, both socially and technologically.
 

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We might quibble with some of the details CGP Grey includes, but overall I think he makes a very realistic case.
 
And this is potentially one type of sweet tension with alternate history. It starts off utopian and light and airy, and becomes dark. And the utopian features, that we're building strength upon strength and compressing economic change, is a big part of what feeds into the dystopian features. We seem to have less ability to move laterally.

Of course, you still need engaging characters arcing across the terrain as it were.
 
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