&gt;<i>Do you all just keep the system because it keeps so many people employed following the pointless bureaucracy of it all?</i><p>No, the main reason we keep it around is to give arrogant Europeans and Canadians something to feel superior about. It&#x27;s not because in a nation with 300 million people in a space as vast as America, it&#x27;s hard to get people to agree on how we should do things. Nope, it&#x27;s cause we&#x27;re idiots and we like inefficient things.