Imagine you can build 100 kernels per hour. If you increase build rate by 50%, you can now build 150 kernels per hour. If you decrease build time by 50%, you ca

Imagine you can build 100 kernels per hour. If you increase build rate by 50%, you can now build 150 kernels per hour. If you decrease build time by 50%, you can now build 100 kernels per 30 minutes, or 200 kernels per hour, which is more impressive. This is the sort of thing you become pedantic about when you play a lot of videogames that do %-based things to your character's stats.