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I'm more than happy for them to dictate
If SI units were as ideal as you pretend, they wouldn't have to. Imperial measure will be all but eliminated by market forces anyway, not just because SI has been the official language for more than half a century but because it is easier for business from both a technological and marketing point of view. Grams in particular are a boon to surreptitious shrinkflation.
None of that gives an excuse for a dictator to prosecute a farmer for selling spuds at the gate by the half cwt.
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I'm more than happy for them to dictate that everything should be in metric, because it makes everyone's lives easier to have a universal, sensible, comparable standard that practically everyone understands and is the same as our major international trading partners, it makes perfect sense, it doesn't mean people can't also use the stupid measurements for the next 40 years until 99% of people who understood them are dead and then it's just a case of using a conversion app when needing old manuals or textbooks or conversing with anyone who's re-established contact from whatever remains of what used to be the USA.