Episode 002

The Complexity Tax: Who Benefits When Law Is Confusing?

March 8, 2026 · 38 min

Legal complexity isn’t an accident. Someone designed it this way.

Every time you sign a contract you don’t understand, every time you skip the fine print, every time you pay a lawyer to translate something that could have been written in plain English — someone benefits from that confusion. And it’s not you.

This episode follows the thread from contract drafting to legislative lobbying to ask a simple question: who profits when law is hard to understand?