> First, Thomas Paine made the point that it was better to live under a dictator than a complex system that hurt you. Interesting; can you point to the quote/s

> First, Thomas Paine made the point that it was better to live under a dictator than a complex system that hurt you. Interesting; can you point to the quote/source on that? (I'm also reminded of the Jobs quote: "Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards!") I'm not sure one is "better", per se, but problems with complex distributed systems tend to be painfully intractable. Worse, I think human nature is to map such problems to narrowly-scoped villain narratives which feel tractable; and so not only does the root complexity go unaddressed, but great efforts are undertaken to thwart the alleged villains, sometimes making the real problems worse.