A policy of quality produces its opposite, disqualified quantity.

Evidence

Quality should be attributed to men, not to things; and human quality is raised and refined to the extent that man can satisfy a greater number of needs and thus make himself independent of them. The high price of bread, due to a desire to keep a greater quantity of people tied to a specific activity, leads to malnutrition. A policy of quality almost always determines its opposite: dis-qualified quantity. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1136

Categorization

• SEED: Angle for an essay on how ‘quality’ dogmas in education or culture generate degraded outcomes at scale.