AHC/WI - 20th Century Wank

I think most people on here would agree with me if I said that our timeline of the 20th century was probably the worst possible scenario. But what if that wasn't the case? What if everything ended up happening the best possible way? Of course 'good' and 'bad' has many interpretations - a white supremacist and a liberal progressive would find different timelines optimal, but I leave such interpretations up to you. All kinds of near-ASB ideas are welcome as well, but ideally you should stick to more or less realistic visions.
 
I think most people on here would agree with me if I said that our timeline of the 20th century was probably the worst possible scenario.

I don't think so. If nothing else, we're all here to write this.

And while WWI and WWII were bad, and all the genocide, and the bloody legacy of decolonization...there's also antibiotics and the Green Revolution. People live longer and healthier lives than at any point in human history, and they do so with unprecedented wealth. One of the main problems in the Western world is people eating too much!.

Sure, there's lots of stuff that could be better. Sidestepping those genocides comes to mind, as does the political situation in too many countries, global warming, etc. But we definitely don't live in the world possible world.
 
And without being Dr. Pangloss, the Nazis discredited racism as a consideration in politics, anthropology and biological science (see Stephen Fry's Making History). Without them fewer people would have died but Jews would still be being blackballed from golf clubs and black people treated as second class citizens. And a Russia not being run by a gang of political fanatics dedicated to running the economy inefficiently for 70% of the twentieth century might dominate Europe by now.
 

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I think most people on here would agree with me if I said that our timeline of the 20th century was probably the worst possible scenario.
I don’t think anyone on here would agree with you. There’s this thing called “global thermonuclear warfare” that could have happened but didn’t.
 
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