system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5:If computer files can be compressed to be a smaller file size (e.g. zipping a file up), how come the file is not originally created to be a smaller file size?
gpt
The same reason your clothes could fit vaccuum sealed into a few small moving boxes, but typically we have them hung loose in the closet. They are easier to manipulate, use, and put back away, and you find paying for more closet space a fair trade off to the time and energy of vacuum packing and unpacking your clothes each morning.