eli5: Can anyone explain why all your checked baggage isn’t weighed collectively and instead weighed individually?

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I was recently traveling and decided to check two bags in. Together, they weighed under the limit collectively, but individually one was overweight. Wouldn’t the total weight be all that matter though?

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Safety of workers who have to lift each individual bag onto the conveyor belts, load planes, etc.

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