Jaime Hoerricks, PhD
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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
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He calls it the procedure fetish.
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Right.
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In the US, government agencies are terrified of being sued.
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Because lawyers have written so many overlapping procedural rules, agencies feel compelled to conduct every conceivable study before they even break ground.
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Exactly.
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A single environmental impact report can easily run to 10,000 pages.
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And that's just the start.
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If a local neighborhood association doesn't want the train near their backyards, they can hire a lawyer to find one single missed checkbox in that ten thousand page report.
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Then then what?
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They file an injunction.
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That injunction freezes the federal grant money.
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While the project is tied up in court for five years, inflation causes the price of steel and labor to skyrocket.
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Contractors leave for other jobs.
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By the time the court actually clears the project, the original budget is completely blown.
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The law is essentially weaponized to make building anything financially impossible.
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Procedure becomes the primary focus rather than the actual outcome of building a train.
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They did, yeah.
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The source text actually entirely agrees with you.
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Yes.
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The author explicitly acknowledges that lawyers are essential for checks and balances.
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