Jaime Hoerricks, PhD

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1,523 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 11 Jul

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Reset Your Thinking Podcast · Book: Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

The left has historically used a web of procedural rules and environmental lawsuits to strangle government action, always demanding more reviews, more studies, more community input. voice-verified

Of course. voice-verified

And the right, meanwhile, has actively sought to deliberately break or shrink the administrative state, operating on that sort of Reagan era philosophy that government is the problem. voice-verified

Let's look at the speed of building. voice-verified

The tale of two trains perfectly illustrates this. voice-verified

Let's rewind to the year 2008. voice-verified

Okay. voice-verified

In 2008, California voters approved a proposition to fund a high-speed rail line connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles. voice-verified

It's roughly an eight hundred mile route. voice-verified

That exact same year, China began construction on its own high speed rail line between Beijing and Shanghai, also roughly an eight hundred mile route. voice-verified

Will China open their Beijing to Shanghai line in twenty eleven? voice-verified

Just three years. voice-verified

It cost them thirty six billion dollars. voice-verified

And in its first decade it completed one point three five billion passenger trips. voice-verified

California, on the other hand, seventeen years after that two thousand eight ballot proposition, has managed to build a small stretch of rail connecting two cities in the Central Valley. voice-verified

Nowhere near them. voice-verified

The latest cost estimate has swelled to one hundred and twenty eight billion dollars. voice-verified

And the first partial segment won't even open until sometime between twenty thirty and twenty thirty three. voice-verified

It really is. voice-verified

So the author brings in a concept from University of Michigan law professor Nicholas Bagley to explain this. voice-verified

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