system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5 why is "military grade" referred as being the highest quality, when it's really the cheapest possible manufacturing by the lowest bidder that does what the military needs?

I just watched a movie that boasted a house having "military grade" fiber. I don't want military grade fiber, I would want Google Fiber equivalent.
gpt
Because even those cheapest bidders still have to meet certain standards of quality and manufacturing. And those standards are high. The army doesn't just say 'we want this made, who can make it cheapest'. The army says 'we want this made at this high level of quality, who offers the cheapest bid'.