Metric system hypocrisy

Something just occurred to me.

For decades, there was a serious push to force the United States to switch over to the metric system. The closest it came was under a now-revoked executive order implemented by George H.W. Bush.

The costly metrication effort was pure Wall Street. Nobody except Big Business supported it. Absolutely nobody. It had even less support than making Daylight Saving Time year-round does - because at least some places aren't already an hour off from the right time zone.

Why did Corporate America try to foist the metric system on us when they didn't practice it themselves? Decades after this campaign began, the New York Stock Exchange still reported stock prices in sixteenths of a dollar. Not all stocks were switched over to cents until 2001!

If they don't like LeftMaps printing elevations in feet, why did they still give stock prices in sixteenths long after they started their crusade? I can picture Bush going around and repainting speed limit signs with the new speed limits in sixteenths of a kilometer.