It’s like you don’t know that civilizations have made changes to make their entire civilization better before.
This is like saying we never should have invented the combustion engine because our entire civilization was previously built on horses, and the transition would have been difficult given the number of carriages and plows that would have become obsolete, let alone the number of horses that would become useless mouths to feed.
Also, I’m American. Not sure if I’ve been perceived as someone who’s arguing in favor of what I was taught as a child while accusing you of doing the same.
there's an entire civilization built on a different measurement system and the math to convert between them is more difficult than the current math
Somehow you don’t view this as a logical reason that we should make them the same instead of constantly having to convert things. It completely makes sense in the modern era that a global measurement system should exist, and it makes a hell of a lot more sense to get rid of the more difficult one used by two countries than to get rid of the easier one used by the entire rest of the world.
Edit: also, almost every civilization has had to convert to metric at some point. It’s not like 90% of the world came up with centimeters independently. Societies would have had their own measurement systems and then converted to metric because they realized it was superior. Yet for some reason Americans are so stubborn that they’d rather keep converting to 32nds of an inch than millimeters
This is like saying we never should have invented the combustion engine because our entire civilization was previously built on horses, and the transition would have been difficult given the number of carriages and plows that would have become obsolete, let alone the number of horses that would become useless mouths to feed.
Except the benefit of machinery was being able to accomplish orders of magnitude more work in the same amount of time at less cost. Your proposal is that we'll be able to make off the cuff calculations in our heads faster. Not quite the same impact.
Somehow you don’t view this as a logical reason that we should make them the same instead of constantly having to convert things. It completely makes sense in the modern era that a global measurement system should exist, and it makes a hell of a lot more sense to get rid of the more difficult one used by two countries than to get rid of the easier one used by the entire rest of the world.
Fuck off with your one world shit. There's no need to unify shit. If people want to interact with us they can use our measurements just like they use our language. And if we want to interact with them we can use their measurements and language. It's not a crisis.
Lmao.
If people want to interact with us they can use our measurements just like they use our language.
Literally neither of these things happen. Ever done work on a car? Hell, half the American cars use metric. It’s not about “one world,” it’s about practicality. When it took two months to communicate with another country and everything you purchase was made domestically, it didn’t matter that different countries had different measurement systems.
Now everything is virtually instant and only getting faster, of course it makes more sense to do everything the same way.
And this part of your comment only further proves my point that you’re only defending the imperial system because it’s what you already know. “They can use our measurements, even though they’re inferior.” Grow the fuck up.
Except the benefit of machinery was being able to accomplish orders of magnitude more work in the same amount of time at less cost.
How short-minded. Imagine how much farther along we’d be today if the trillions of calculations that happened in the last two hundred years had all been made slightly faster. Imagine how much farther along we’ll be in two hundred more years if we started today.
I get it, you’re uncomfortable learning new things and admitting that what you’ve thought all along has been inferior to what other people were doing. You should stop that.
I get it, you’re uncomfortable learning new things and admitting that what you’ve thought all along has been inferior to what other people were doing. You should stop that.
LOL. I already know the metric system. I know how easy it is to convert between units, like that a Newton is the force needed to accelerate one kilogram to one meter per second. Makes for handy calculations, but there's nothing about it that will magically transform anything.
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