The more complex you make something -- even if it's only structured, constructive complexity -- the more people you are excluding. Simplicity is accessibility
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I can forgive constructive complexity -- abstract philosophy, high art. But the addition of unnecessary complexity specifically for the purpose of excluding as many people as possible is all too common, and something to push back against.
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Do you have an example in mind of something intentionally unnecessarily complex?
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The financial system
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein
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I know what you mean, but complexity ≠ obfuscation The world is complex! And in order to understand it we have to make its complexity legible. Reductionist thinking (the result of oversimplifying complex causal relationships) doesn’t do anyone any good.
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Driver should be some quantitative notion of "empathy" harm to others. For papers, I suggest minimum time to understand something vs actual time to understand the thing. Often papers go deeply in the wrong direction, ignoring fields, reinventing concepts, not bridging.
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Phamaceutical companies naming drugz
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There was a forward to a section in an Abstract Algebra textbook that read something like "the terminology in this domain can only be explained by the desire to make things inaccessibly complicated"
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