the inertia of 100+ years of legacy electrical installations! really north america is the weird one for using 120V
even though the higher voltage is a bit more dangerous, in european countries they've engineered around this in a lot of ways like how most outlets have shutters on them and insulated sleeves on the live/neutral prongs. both features that US outlets/plugs entirely lack
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