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Ahem. Didn't several spaceship explode so far? Planes crashed... People died. And I think many US scientists have already switched to metric and many engineers have not. I bet they currently waste large sums of money for doing double the work when working together. Combined the sum of not switching is already a ludicrous amount of billions and billions. And the world isn't getting less globalised. So true. It costs money to switch. And it's probably yet another man's pocket that money comes from. But the sooner you do it, the more money it'll save you and everybody in the long run.
Edit: And after a while even your engineers might thank you for the easier calculations. And it's not that a two-by-four has two by four inches anyways.
Tragedy of the commons though. It's in nobody's individual best interest to switch, even if the cost was justified.
Isn't tragedy of the commons when you share something and it for example gets overused and destroyed in the process? Tragic referring to the part where everyone is trying to get the max out of it for them individually and causing the demise?
This is something else. And also it IS in everybody's best interest. I'd assume it's not the most fun activity to learn your feet in a mile, yards... And translating recipes is just madness. I imagine you need all sorts of little helpers, the measuring cups, smear butter everywhere to measure it by volume... and need to whip out a calculator if someone stays for dinner. I think it costs money and people are lazy and fail to see the bigger picture. Because they haven't tried thinking about this for 5 minutes and are already complaining. It's not that they wouldn't also benefit.
Disclaimer: I'm also not perfect and sometimes fail to see some bigger picture.