Fun read on the tyranny of “enlightenment”
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They could have easily selected any of those traditional systems of measures to standardize on nationwide instead of creating a new one. But the jacobins didn't really care about making measurement simpler, they just wanted to smash all traditions to make room for their fake utopia.
Correct. Maybe I'm biased because I'm used to the metric system. But a decimal system seems better to me, at least for measurements, than traditional systems. Anyone who has to work a lot with different scales, like scientists, does use the metric system.