Simplicity is all important pervasive quality in all walks of individual life, systems, organizations and state systems.
One wonders why often we encounter systems that could be simple, are made so complex that the processes overtake the goals. Sure, there have to be internal controls and checks and balances for transparency reasons; but the processes should not have overweight than the intent of the functioning of the systems.
Some controls may be redundant or overlapping. Some may fail in the test of cost and utility comparisons.Exemplary punishments and rule of law work better than detailed sundry attempts to make people follow the prescribed system mandates. Care, however, must be taken that people are well aware of rules, regulations, and violation punishments. At times, the awareness is a serious issue, if the communities and people (the demand side) are not really exposed to the system details; making them heaven for the services providing professionals.
I often found that most complicated problems have simple solutions; provided that we are willing to understand the 'costs' and benefits of the comparative scenario. Too many controls means sovereign lack of integrity of people and systems. Same goes for the individuals, families and society. Make things simple, get the approximate desired results. Small things would get averages out!
