Complexity


An economy has a lot of dollar paths, really a lot. To me, it looks like the “Power Maze with Sconce” by Roman de Salvo which I saw at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego. Imagine the electrical conduits to be dollar paths and the junctions to be money pumps and you have the economic mess artistically depicted.

SeeTheDollars can sort out this mess by allowing you to prioritize the dollar paths into groups of different levels of detail. Readers are not burdened with details they may not be interested in, but the details are there if they want them.

Each level of detail is a different web page, with however many dollar paths and money pumps it needs. The pages are referenced to each other by links. How to implement this feature is yet to be determined and it requires careful thought on how to keep track of everything and avoid creating a big mess.

For example, the Venezuela page that discusses changing economic conditions is an overview page, because it’s a summary of the effect of Socialism on its economy. But the story does not end there. There are a lot of how and why questions. The answers, and there is plenty of literature that provides them, can be visualized on separate web pages that correspond to levels 1, 2, and so forth of detail.