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by paimoe 2224 days ago
Even if it works brilliantly in other places, you'll still have a big part of the US saying "it'll never work here, we're too different" etc. Same arguments as the metric system that's been great everywhere for such a long time.
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>Same arguments as the metric system that's been great everywhere for such a long time.

The biggest argument against the metric system is that it would cost trillions to retool all factories etc. to metric.

Secondarily, countries like Canada and the UK aren't 100% metric and use a weird sort of Frankenstein system (i.e. Brits measuring body weight in "stone"). And if anything that's worse than one or the other