Well yes and no? Calculations were apparently done in metric units but operators were reading fantasy customary units.

Although data was stored internally in metric units, they were displayed as United States customary units. Fom the Wikipedia Article for the Apollo Guidance Computer

Most of them also slowly follow the US, e.g. Germany. In Germany we had like 3-4 decades after WWII, where i would say capitalism was bearable. Meaning realtively high median income, people could actually afford houses, some kind of wealth distribution (high taxes on high incomes, at least some kind of wealth tax, but on the other hand free, decent education and full subsidy students life, when you go to university and you or your parents can’t( afford to support you in this time).

Then neoliberalism hit in the 90s… And we really started to fuck every social thing in Germany to become “Exportweltmeister” in the early 2000s.

Frachtrock ist eine super Bezeichnung!