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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They maintain civic mindedness, they protect civil rights, they give citizens a voice against the state.
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The problem identified in the text isn't that lawyers exist.
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The problem is that the system has mutated over the last fifty years.
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Precisely.
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Today it is primarily wealthy homeowners who use these environmental and procedural lawsuits to block affordable housing, to stop mass transit near their neighborhoods, or to just delay infrastructure projects they don't want to look at.
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Right.
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Exactly.
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And the author argues that this system actually hurts the working class the most because they are the ones who desperately need the new housing and functioning public transit.
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The lawyerly society has created a low agency environment where building anything for the broad public good feels impossible.
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It is.
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When you have leaders trained entirely as hydraulic engineers and physical scientists, they tend to view the economy and society as liquid flows.
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Human life becomes a metric that can be directed, restricted, increased, or blocked.
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That is a perfect analogy?
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Yes.
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And the author notes that when engineers see a problem, they go hard in one direction without any humanist softies like lawyers or activists to hit the brakes.
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Take population growth.
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The state decided there were too many people, so it implemented the one child policy in nineteen eighty.
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The mechanism for this wasn't, you know, a public awareness campaign.
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It was mass sterilizations and forced abortions.
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That's brutal.
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