When do you think we’ll accomplish it? Certainly not in the next four years, IMO. If we’re lucky, we might be able to do it within like 20 years.
Do you think it’s related to Boomers at all, and newer generations might be more willing to push it through? Here’s a Boomer Death Clock that says about 35% of them have passed away by now.
The only real defense of our current system is that in construction, it’s easier to divide 12 inches into thirds than metric. Seems like a pretty weak rationale still, and we should also just switch to dozenal anyways
I wouldn’t give imperial that much credit. I think momentum is the only reason. Workers are trained to think in imperial because the older person training them thinks in imperial. And so it continues.