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You may be assuming there isn't a connection there. Could it be that our society and economy are growing more complex because the government continues to grow?
by _heimdall 3y ago
You may be assuming there isn't a connection there. Could it be that our society and economy are growing more complex because the government continues to grow?
More government agencies and employees create more rules. More rules almost certainly play into the growing complexity of both our society and economy.
Population growth is nothing new, its only the last 60-80 years that we've really cranked up the size of our government.
- llamaimperative 3y agoI am absolutely confident that our society and economy aren’t growing more complex exclusively due to government growth. The whole virtue of capitalism is that it finds increasingly niche ways and outright novel ways to change the world, that’s by definition net new complexity. I’m comfortable attributing the vast majority of complexity growth to that. Not only is the population growing exponentially but one would reasonably expect the complexity of the overall economy would go up exponentially even with linear additions to the population (each new person is N new possible economic relations).