For the collapse community, that complexity is viewed as a major vulnerability. A classic text in their lexicon is anthropologist Joseph Tainter’s “The Collapse

For the collapse community, that complexity is viewed as a major vulnerability. A classic text in their lexicon is anthropologist Joseph Tainter’s “The Collapse of Complex Societies,” which discusses complexity’s role in collapse (the TL;DR is that diminishing marginal returns to social complexity are to be avoided if you’d like your society to prevail).