> Side question: why don't tech companies help push the USA public towards the metric system and the SI (International System of Units) in general?
Because French units are objectively worse for concrete manipulation (while being admittedly objectively superior for abstract conversion, and under the metric of popularity).
Switch to decimal units was among the dumber ideas of the French Revolution; switching to duodecimal digits would have been far wiser.
Because French units are objectively worse for concrete manipulation (while being admittedly objectively superior for abstract conversion, and under the metric of popularity).
Switch to decimal units was among the dumber ideas of the French Revolution; switching to duodecimal digits would have been far wiser.