Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "Is The Metric System Actually Better?" video.

  1. I don't understand why these systems can't be used in daily life for routine tasks by laymen, and metric can't be used for all manufacturing and science. Consider this: You're a farmer, at any period in history. You don't know shit about shit except putting literal shit on the ground to grow shit. How do you measure things? Well, you could use the space from one end of your thumbnail to the other for small things. That's an inch. You can use your foot for things that are a little bit bigger than that. Three feet to a yard is, frankly, elementary and if you complain about that mathematical operation, I'm concerned for you because those farmers knew how to do it. Now let's think to ourselves: How big is a meter? No, I mean, if you walked outside right now without any measuring tools and had to eyeball a meter, how would you do it? The easy answer for me, as an American, would be "it's about a yard," because they're almost the same at small distances. Otherwise you're stuck with guessing over and over again until you get a rough idea of what a meter is. The problem with metric is that it is based on quite arbitrary foundations. The conversion is excellent, but to a layman, the fundamental units themselves make almost no sense because they aren't relatable. To someone with little education or experience in measurement, the idea of a yard being three of your feet placed lengthwise is easy to grasp. Does this mean that "imperial is for stupid people?" I mean, sure if you want to put it like that. But then again you're going to be living in a world filled with stupid people for the rest of your life, so you might as well accommodate them.
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