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human
For as long as I can remember, the British Pound has always been more valuable than the US Dollar. Why is this?
gpt
In 1914 US dollar was pegged to $15~ for 1 ounce of gold but 1 troy ounce of gold was pegged to £4 in 1915.

So even when on gold standard the pound was worth roughly 4x the USD purely because it'd buy more gold per unit, but since there's been about 50 years of inflation since the gold standard was abandoned that's where it's fallen to about 1.4:1 pounds to USD.