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Complexity has always been power. For decades, entire industries have thrived by making systems difficult to build, difficult to understand, and difficult to change. Software companies, professional services, and institutional gatekeepers have built enormous businesses around managing this complexity for everyone else. As Artificial Intelligence evolves, that era is ending. In The Death of the Complexity Tax, software entrepreneur and automation strategist Shane McGrath reveals how artificial intelligence is collapsing the barriers that once protected complex industries and redistributing power to individuals, small teams, and everyday builders. Drawing on sweeping historical parallels, from the printing press to the industrial revolution to the rise of the internet, we find a consistent pattern: whenever the cost of navigating complexity falls, old gatekeepers lose control and entirely new forms of creativity, business, and economic growth emerge. Now, AI is triggering the next great simplification. This book explores: - Why SaaS companies and complexity-driven business models face an extinction event - How AI is dismantling barriers in law, medicine, finance, and knowledge work - What second and third order effects will reshape cities, labor markets, and global economies - Why the collapse of complexity doesn't destroy opportunity, it multiplies it - How a new generation of builders is emerging in an age of intelligent automation Rather than focusing on fear, The Death of the Complexity Tax offers a hopeful, grounded roadmap for understanding how technological simplification has always led to higher standards of living, broader participation, and explosive human creativity. If you want to understand where the modern economy is headed, and how to thrive as gatekeepers fall and tools become more powerful, this book offers a clear lens into the future that is already unfolding.

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