Quantity vs Quality

There are two main types of measurements that is looked at when researching-- quantity and quality. It seems like we as humans gravitate towards putting quantity over quality. It's better to have more of something no matter the capability of said thing. We long for more money, clothes, material goods, time, friends, etc. We want more we want more! BUT WHY?! Isn't it better to have one really good item or thing rather than multiple versions of a worse product? I see "mass-produced" everything now and nothing works! Our main sources of energy through fossil fuels and mass production of low-nutrient & highly processed food are two great examples. Making more of something with less quality encourages a wasteful cycle we humans have for some reason inhabited into our everyday life. Why worry about keeping something for a long extended period of time when there are thousands more just like it? Why spend $20 on buying less food that's actually useful to our bodies like fresh produce and free-rage protein when we can instead double what we purchase by buying chips, cookies, candy, and soda? Before westernization, Hawai'i didn't rely on having unreasonable amounts of tools, food, and power. It was more important to have a few well-crafted tools than an entire house full of easily breakable ones. Before western influence, many cultures relied on quality over quantity and most cultures thrived with this in mind. It's no coincidence that our society is unstable because we don't stress the importance of the right things. If our views changed to stressing the importance of quality and not just quantity, we wouldn't be as wasteful, careless, and stressed when the low quality things fall apart. Why not stress the importance of quality from now on? Because the idea is there, the importance is just not stressed enough.