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Human nature.

Quality in general has always been an afterthought by many if not most people and companies. Always will be.

Some people are just not quality people. But when they find their way into important corporate positions their "leadership" effectively puts a major obstacle in front of any inherently higher-quality operators or teams underneath, restricting the flow of true available quality towards the clients, customers, and shareholders that could otherwise benefit.

Probably why I named my first company Quality, just like so many other companies in so many fields of operation, because it's not an afterthought to me.

Combined, all us "Quality" oriented companies who try to choose this as a differentiator still make up a small minority and are always under continuous pressure to compromise this most elusive feature, sometimes necessary to compete or even survive in situations where higher quality is not fully valued. More often there is downward pressure when lower quality becomes overvalued, as we see this trend growing in the 21st century.

It's tough for so many people to tell the difference between low and high quality anyway, especially for those where it's not even an afterthought.