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What about going the other way, we take up the metric system and coins for our 1 and 2 dollars instead of paper bills?
Aviation has just got its dick stuck too hard in the imperial can. Having to teach material where g=32 makes me want to eat glass.
The U.S. already uses the metric system in strategic areas like the military, space exploration and scientific research.
It would be quite cost prohibitive to replace all the road signs so we’re keeping the imperial system for day to day stuff.
We've tried dollar coins a couple times.
But never with taking away the bills. Get rid if the bills and force the coins and voilà.
too many stripper injuries
That seems like a losing move for not a lot of benefit.
Yeah, no idea on the pros and cons of dollar coins, just that they'll never take off while there are still bills circulating.
My guess would be a knee jerk response like the move away from incandescent bulbs.
I barely even use cash at this point so I'm not sure what the actual implications would be.
Aren't dollar coins used in the US? Because I've used them in dollarized economies (e.g. Ecuador) and I assumed they were fairly standard everywhere.
They exist but are not circulated in nearly enough quantity so we basically collect them as oddities.
We have them but they're somewhat uncommon. I needed three for a project recently and had to go well out of my way to find them
i only see them in Las Vegas, where theres millions of them.
In terms of the metric system, just tell Americans that they're still using the occupier's system (British redcoats). 😉
Ugh, we're not even. We're using the US customary system, which uses the British words but aren't the same values as British Imperial values. They're actually pegged to the metric system, so if the definition of a kilometer changed, so would the definition of a mile.
We're using metric with extra steps. Not to mention certain products are already in metric, and everything else has the metric on it already.
Oh, that's interesting.