The amount of information doesn't remain constant - technology enables bureaucrats to invent yet more bizarre and arcane legislation. For example,the U.S. tax

The amount of information doesn't remain constant - technology enables bureaucrats to invent yet more bizarre and arcane legislation. For example,the U.S. tax code was 504 pages long in 1939, 8,200 pages in 1945, 67,000 in 2008 and 75.000 pages today. http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2010/03/growing-complexity-of-us-federal-tax.html http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2010/03/growing-co... I work for an insurance company, and we spend far more time writing code to comply with regulations than we do writing code for our agents and customers.