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Quality vs Quantity: The Definitive Take
Alright, content writer peeps — let’s settle this once and for all.
The world’s bestselling car is a Toyota Corolla. The world’s most popular ice cream flavor is vanilla. The world’s most popular second language is English.
If I had to guess, they are not your favorite car, your favorite ice cream flavor, or the language you’re most excited to learn.
Objectively, they are not the best car, the best ice cream flavor, or the best language.
What do they all have in common? They’re practical. Useful, even.
The Corolla is reliable, reasonably priced, and good on gas (by combustion engine standards). Vanilla ice cream is almost no one’s least favorite and it goes with everything. English is the lingua franca* in disciplines like science, media, navigation, and law.
[Author’s Note: Here’s where we acknowledge that, yes, the British Empire and the United States' outsized military, economic and cultural dominance made English as a Second Language more of a survival mechanism than an enthusiastic choice between the 18th and 20th centuries. Those embers are going to take a while to stamp out.]
Here’s what they also have in common: They’re available.
