Case 18 | Systemic Index: A Model of Administrative Rent-seeking and Artificial Entropy

Complexity is not an accident; it is a factor of production. By dismantling single professional skill sets into multiple "payment nodes," the administrative state ensures a recurring revenue stream at the expense of social productivity.

0. Definition: Artificial Entropy The intentional creation of systemic complexity (e.g., license fragmentation, redundant certification, multi-tier regulation) to ensure the total cost of social operation > actual productive value. This is not "management failure," but a parasitic model that uses complexity as a factor of production.