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Re:Rich countries tend to have a bigger middle-class, except... by mjevans on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @05:13PM (#19732926)
It's more short-term pain avoidance based.

The reason we aborted the conversion to the metric system is because a generation of idiots couldn't stand the pain of switching, and the longer we delay the more painful it will be.

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