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True, but the world also runs on standards (whether explicitly defined or customary), and doing things differently from everybody else makes it painful to work together.

Sometimes there's also value in doing something objectively poorly, but in a predictable and well-understood way.

Unilaterally starting to "do numbers better" sounds like a recipe for, let's say, interesting times in the finance/accounting world.



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