The USA is very retarded in adoption of modern measurement methods. It will continue to cost them a LOT, every year, forever, until they change. That alone could be sufficient to take them down - entropy is the enemy of existence and any entropy is bad entropy. Volunteering to remain backwards is not the way to go forwards.
The USA still largely uses cheque-books to pay bills.
But they have so many better things that despite the backward aspects, the USA remains pre-eminent, more or less, overall, sort of, for the most part, though I prefer not to live there.
Having grown up with the imperial system of weights and measures, not to mention pounds, shillings, pence, [I just missed farthings and parts of farthings], I was very grateful when the metric systems of currency and weights and measures were adopted.
You are obviously confused about anglo brains. We have no trouble with metric systems. They are very simple - it's the imperial systems which are difficult. English language remains "imperial" and could do with a good metricating. The USA has partly metricated it by changing colour to color, aluminium to aluminum and many other adaptations.
But imagine being a second language person getting to grips with:
bought, bough, bow, bow, brought, caught rough, dough, cough, enough, sough, tough, should, mould, mold, mount ... argghh...
I got into a dispute with a teacher over the spelling of colour. She didn't think it was color. I knew it was [my spelling being perfect]. She said to check it in my dictionary at home. I was amazed to find she was right. That's when I learned Americans spell differently [Donald Duck comics were my teacher]. Also that teachers aren't very good - she should have said that was the American way, but in NZ we do it differently.
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