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.
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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