• Omnipitaph@reddthat.com
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    6 days ago

    One, they aren’t fantasy units— this is real life, son.

    Two, the country was built on imperial, so the trades use imperial to maintain the country. Everyone in the US grows up learning in imperial, and then learns metric when they get into physics and chemistry.

    Three, I addressed the fact that WE CAN NOT AFFORD TO SWITCH. It does not matter if it is going to be more expensive in the future. We can’t afford it NOW.

    I understand the spirit of your reply. This is just the reality of what having 50 different states, who can’t agree on anything and are loosely tied together by an over-arching government, is like.

    There are 27 counties in the European Union, and they are filled with reasonable people in government(for the most part). We have 50 states that are filled with greedy little assholes who will do everything in their power to gain more power to leverage in a bid to destroy what they deem “the enemy”, so they can make even more money and gain more power.

    We are never going to convert wholesale to metric. We can’t even agree, as a country, that poor people are people, at a government scale. That is entirely motivated by profit and nothing more.

    It simply does not pay to switch to metric.