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The Insidious Poison of Excessive Regulation

How our tendency to make things more and more complicated over time ultimately causes societies and organizations to collapse.

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Marcus Raitner
Jan 13, 2025
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We are inclined to make our life complicated. This is partly because we tend to solve problems by adding something, rather than eliminating something, even if removing would clearly be a better solution. This tendency was demonstrated very impressively by (Adams et al., 2021) in a series of experiments.

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