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

He gets to go to college. voice-verified

By the time Yao is forty, he is in his prime earning years right as China enters the World Trade Organization and the manufacturing economy absolutely explodes. voice-verified

It created an instant middle class. voice-verified

Your destiny in this system is entirely dependent on whether you happen to be born in the right decade to avoid the wheel crushing you. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

The engineering state can be breathtakingly cruel because it treats people as aggregates, not individuals with rights. voice-verified

But, and this is a crucial piece of the puzzle, it also delivers undeniable physical and economic progress. voice-verified

It's a fair question, and to illustrate this paradox, the author recounts a grueling four hundred mile bike ride he took with friends through Gizu. voice-verified

It's a remote mountainous province in China's southwest. voice-verified

Historically, it was incredibly isolated. voice-verified

The author notes it is currently China's fourth poorest province, with a per capita income roughly equivalent to Botswana. voice-verified

Which is astounding. voice-verified

And it has a functional high-speed rail network. voice-verified

It houses massive data centers for the tech industry. voice-verified

At one point they are cycling through a rural county named Zengen and they see giant rock guitars hanging off the street lamps. voice-verified

Guitars. voice-verified

The local government decided to lure workers back from coastal factories and engineer a manufacturing hub. voice-verified

Today, that random county in the mountains produces one out of every seven guitars made globally. voice-verified

Oh, the descriptions are wild. voice-verified

Mm-hmm. voice-verified

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