But that’s because of historical precedent, if you weren’t aware of this then congrats for being one of today’s lucky 10,000! Ben Franklin arbitrarily picked t

But that’s because of historical precedent, if you weren’t aware of this then congrats for being one of today’s lucky 10,000! Ben Franklin arbitrarily picked the positive anode as the starting point when coming up with the idea of electricity flowing, long before we had any understanding of atomic theory. It wouldn’t make sense to just invert everything after we discovered that electrons are the actual fundamental charge carriers.