Wank a Decade: 1910s

I don't know if anyone has ever suggested this before, but I've been thinking about the various events that happened in the 1910s and I figured I'd try to wank the decade as a whole. In other words, make the decade as nice as possible for as much of the world as possible. For our purposes, lets just say 1910-1919.

So, to kick things off:

- Titanic does not sink. Lets say that it still hits the iceberg, but manages to limp into harbor, with 4 compartments flooded (the max). Close enough of a scare to encourage some examination of safety procedures.
- The Xinhai Revolution goes more smoothly. Perhaps Song Jiaoren is not assassinated, and Yuan Shikai is marginalized.
- Wilson is not elected President. Almost anyone would be better than Wilson on every front.
- World War I is avoided. Millions don't die in the conflict and the ensuing wars that it spawned, Communism and Fascism never really get off the ground.
- Spanish Flu epidemic never happens.

What else could go better about the decade? I just picked a few things that went badly, of course, and changed them. There's probably some specific technologies here and there that could have come earlier, too.
 
The reaction to Ford-Taylorism could result in a swifter buy off of labour productivity among great power workers. Paternalism, labourism, progressivism, social democracy, Veblenish technocracy, IWW threats.

Chiefly I'm thinking generalised healthcare, homes fit for labour, workplace safety, generalising secondary education, increased quality and quantity of food consumption.

Cooperative consumption and partly production could be more extensive.

Or, you know, the expanded reproduction of capital could be replaced by generalising industrial commonwealths with direct democracy from shop floor upwards.

Yours,
Sam R.
 
The reaction to Ford-Taylorism could result in a swifter buy off of labour productivity among great power workers. Paternalism, labourism, progressivism, social democracy, Veblenish technocracy, IWW threats.

Chiefly I'm thinking generalised healthcare, homes fit for labour, workplace safety, generalising secondary education, increased quality and quantity of food consumption.

Cooperative consumption and partly production could be more extensive.

Or, you know, the expanded reproduction of capital could be replaced by generalising industrial commonwealths with direct democracy from shop floor upwards.

Yours,
Sam R.

I’m inclined to disagree, particularly on the latter points.
 
We see the Portuguese Empire carved up, and more white settlement in Africa, which stays under European rule longer if not to the present day.
 
We see the Portuguese Empire carved up, and more white settlement in Africa, which stays under European rule longer if not to the present day.

How/why would they carve up the Portuguese Empire?

I could see a sort of federal colonialism eventually developing, but thats not likely to happen for quite awhile after the 1910s.
 
How/why would they carve up the Portuguese Empire?

I could see a sort of federal colonialism eventually developing, but thats not likely to happen for quite awhile after the 1910s.
There was a plan to do so negotiated by Britain and Germany in 1913 or so over unpaid debts or some other excuse.
 
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