People Share When Quantity Can Be More Important Than Quality

People Share When Quantity Can Be More Important Than Quality
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The old saying goes, "Quality over quantity." Instead of having a lot of something that's only just okay, it's better to have one thing of that's been made really well. Sure, having one hand-crafted table might be better than having twenty IKEA tables, but sometimes it's not always about the quality. Occasionally it does help to have more of one thing than simply one really nice thing.

Reddit user, u/powerspyin1, wanted to know when more actually is better when they asked:

When is Quantity more important than Quality?

Make It Mountain Sized

Fried rice from that cheap chinese place down the road.

Bhume

Kind Of Obvious, But Worth Saying

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Air.

Trapped under water I'd rather have an unlimited supply of the worst China class smog than 15 minutes of FijiⓇ Air.

betelgeux

Money Is The True King

Well I'll take a box of old dirty quarters over a handful of shiny ones.

KuriousKatze

As Long As They're Mouths Are Full

A kids pizza party.

Those little sh-ts wouldn't know good pizza anwyays...

size12shoebacca

As Long As It Fills You

When you're poor, food.

I'd rather have a kitchen full of semi healthy stuff that will last than a few healthy items

kittykatblaque

So Long As They Both Do The Same Job

I'd say when quality becomes superfluous.

If you were building a house, you could spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on custom tooled boron carbide meme nails, that will literally shred steel before they so much as scratch. Or you could spend only a few hundred (at the most) on regular carpenters nails. They will both do the same job, to the level of expectations that you would require, but one choice would be significantly cheaper, in a way quantity can be it's own quality.

cheezeit1776

The Quality Of Water Doesn't Matter So Much When You're Burning Down

When you need water to put out a fire.

moonsttarxs

A Little Better Every Day

In practice. For example: spending 100 days doing bad drawings will teach you more about drawing than 100 days trying to perfect one piece.

elcasaurus

Has Anyone Seen My...?

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Pens.

No matter the quality, you will always lose them.

staceyistired

Never Knew How Much I Need This

Funeral kazoos

MadlynOkada

Yep. I'm writing this into my will. Thank you. Some day my family will laugh at my funeral and it will be my last goofy thing.

Northern-Canadian

2016 Called

Voters

Edit: all you bloody americans stop trying to work my single word response to a question into your corrupt and frankly proposterous election system or whatever the hell you guys have over there. No country has quality voters as a majority and you need to majority to win elections. MAJORITY OF THE VOTES ARE IMPORTANT AS THE QUESTION ASKED ABOUT A SCENARIO WHERE QUANTITY WAS IMPORTANT. sheesh you guys and your electoral whatnots i do not give a single bold headed f-ck.

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