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It'd have to be a funny yardstick. Almost nothing we value scales linearly. I would start getting tired of kittens after about 4,250 of them had gone by.
Velocity runs into diminishing returns too near the speed of light - but it is still useful to try and measure it - and a yardstick can help with that.