Complex fail

I suspect that, apart from depleting resources and increasing pollution,  the greatest threat to modem society is complexity in our systems.

Fewer people can fully understand our complex systems whereas more and more hate them as the source of their ills. Complex systems are easy targets for the mentally disenfranchised.

Complex systems are also ready targets for exploitation by the cunning with resources. The more complex, the easier they are to exploit. Think of our tax system as an example.

So at one end we have the cunning with resources doing the raping, and at the other the cunning without resources sending up ground-to-air missiles.

The guileless masses with moderate resources are under threat and they hardly know it.

Bentham should have added an addendum. The greater good for the greater many with the minimum of complexity.

That is we need to cross pollinate Bentham and Occam.