@rmd1023 @Homebrewandhacking

All of this legit points to a deep and systemic sickness in the American culture and psyche.

We will fully go OUT OF OUR WAY to make life harder on ourselves and everyone else, just to avoid adopting more efficient, logical systems that actually make sense. Maintaining an obsolete status quo, and the stubbornly proprietary systems that use it, is a higher priority than progress. Can't have too much compatability with "foreign" ideas and manufacturing, and can't acknowledge somebody came up with a better way of doing something.