Efficiency vs. Quality (Berry)
August 31st, 2006 | Published in Consumerism, Culture, Economics, Quotes, Work
The standard of efficiency displaces and destroys the standards of quality because, by definition, it cannot even consider them. Instead of asking a man what he can do well, it asks him what he can do fast and cheap.
–Wendell Berry, “Discipline and Hope” in A Continuous Harmony (1972), p. 90