You want people to know just enough metric to be able to work with it on the
job to profit business, but on the other extreme you don't want them to know
it as consumers. The more difficult one makes it to determine value the
more easier it is to cheat customers.
The situation with changing the scales to kilograms but keeping and
encouraging imperial pricing is another example of maintaining an atmosphere
of confusion. Yes, the law might say pricing has to be in kilograms too.
But is it always and if not is it enforced? Even when it is, just having
the pounds there keeps people from learning the kilograms and complicates
the shopping experience.
Those who see the situation as undesirable describe it as a mess. Those who
love the atmosphere of confusion call it meddling.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip S Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, 2005-09-17 06:25
Subject: Re: [USMA:34497] Re: Long live the good old British pint!
If they are truly gone, then that is why they are gone, because they made
sense. Nothing we do seems to follow any logical path. It is designed
that way so that the masses can be controlled by the few. Metric is not
desired for the masses because the masses would be enlightened by it.
Thus keep them in darkness by surrounding them with nothing that makes
sense.
If that's true then maybe the British government have been playing the
same game. What they do doesn't always make sense either. Like getting
most of industry to go metric, changing the school curriculum so kids are
only taught metric, then refusing to change road signs and delaying other
key aspects of metrication for decades. And yet the lay the blame for the
problems in education entirely at the door of schools and teachers.
Prometric campaigners like myself try to point out the logic of having a
single system of measurement in Britain but it seems lost on so many of
our elected representatives in parliament.
Phil Hall
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