Set aside the mostly irrelevant topic of “global warming,” the point stands… entrepreneurial geniuses are devoted to pretty ridiculous, distortionary behavior – and then another nontrivial portion of the labor force working for banks or tax authorities trying to uphold compliance against said behavior.

Here's a novel take: just don't?

Bureaucratic complexity is almost always a tax on the poor/innocent and a transfer to the savvy (who often happen to be wealthy already)

Not sure if there's something I despise more than bureaucratic complexity