[dijksterhuis]

> Most actual solutions that people need are solving complex problems.

My general experience has been the problems people want me to solve are not the actual problems that they need to solve.

The problems that need to be solved have very simple solutions.

The purported solutions to the purported problems are usually a way to avoid doing the simple solutions because it is "inconvenient" to people who want the other solution.

Maybe I'm jaded. Maybe I've had a bad lot. But it's happened enough, and in enough disparate instances, for me to think this is just humanity being humanity.

edit to add a caveat -- this applies generally, i.e. to most people most of the time. i feel like i cast a bit of a wide net with how this comment has been phrased.