Why did the British invent the imperial system and then abandon it?
In: Economics
The British invented THEIR system, it’s called “Imperial” because it was common in the British Empire but the French also had an “Imperial” system that didn’t match the British one, same thing with the Russians and many other.
A system is effective when everyone uses it, if you trade mostly inside your empire it works but once you go outside becomes more difficult(especially when your ruler decides to change it to suit himself making precious measurements useless), that’s why a “Standard” system, equal everywhere, became necessary. All the countries had different systems that were abandoned once a new system was standardized.
Plus the metric system offers better qualities than imperial, because it’s created by weird people like scientists instead of our eternal and perfect Emperor.
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