But for society, and the economy as a whole, these problems are "dead-weight loss" [0]. No productive output is created by jumping through the necessary hoops t

But for society, and the economy as a whole, these problems are "dead-weight loss" [0]. No productive output is created by jumping through the necessary hoops to comply with every increasing complexity. And there are opportunity costs to spending time and money on tax / regulatory compliance vs. the actual business. If your above statement was true, then wouldn't it be more true the more complexity we added to the system? Maybe instead of working till the middle of April [1] to pay the government our tax bill, we could be working half the year.. or longer? Surely all of that complexity would create even more openings for businesses wanting to solve the complexity problem... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadweight_loss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadweight_loss [1] http://taxfoundation.org/article/tax-freedom-day-2015-april-24th http://taxfoundation.org/article/tax-freedom-day-2015-april-...