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Originally Posted by D.O.G.
I don't get why you Americans think changing is so hard.
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It's not
hard, it's undesirable. Change ought to make things better. Changing to the metric system for everyday use would make things worse, for all the reasons given above.
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At least your currency is already "metric" (base 10).
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Not entirely. That's why we have the quarter, nickel, and half dollar (though that's now rare in everyday use). And the most common bill is probably the $20. If it was purely decimal, we'd only have pennies and dimes, and $1, $10, and $100 bills. Having those non-decimal denominations makes life a lot easier.
Though I admit I've never quite understood why we have a quarter dollar coin, but not a $25 bill :-)
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You pick it up quickly enough.
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And one picks up the LSD system quickly enough, too.
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Originally Posted by RedDevil
China, obviously.
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Not by
per capita income. In 2014, China $7,590.00, US $54,629.50. (Per
GDP per capita (current US$) | Data | Table ) And of course China makes a big chunk of its income from selling stuff to the US.
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It is quite something to attribute the rise of the USA to the measurement system.
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I don't
attribute it to the measurement system, I simply note that it obviously did not prove to be a major obstacle. And I do find it interesting that both France and Britain have declined since adopting the metric system, even if it is pure coincidence.
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I believe those two world wars that destroyed most of the infrastructure in Europe and Asia, twice over, had more to do with that.
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On the contrary. Destroying antiquated infrastructure created the opportunity to start again, with a newer and more efficient one. Much of which was paid for by the US, BTW :-)