> It is difficult to find an economic argument for such activity but it bears a significant resemblance to a "tragedy of the commons" scenario. To me the canon

> It is difficult to find an economic argument for such activity but it bears a significant resemblance to a "tragedy of the commons" scenario. To me the canonical example of this is base-10 numbering system. If we were base 12 (and it's not unheard of), we'd have the best properties of both the metric system (being based in the radix of the number system) and imperial (half units that are easily divisible into common integer fractions, halves, thirds, quarters, etc). Blank state, no doubt, base-12 is better. But now imagine the costs of switching our society to base-12 when the US cannot even get with Celsius which is clearly the most intuitive of the metric measures. Some things are truly moot and require seismic events to ever be possible to change so they are effectively set in stoneas far as mortals are concerned. PS- for those interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal PPS- base-16 is not covenient for thirds, and really only makes sense for a society anticipating binary logic