Erick A. Brimen
Added 2024-12-23 23:52:16 +0000 UTCIn this episode of the Bridges Podcast, Steven sits down with Erick Brimen, entrepreneur and visionary behind new approaches to community development and economic opportunity. Together, they explore Erick's journey in building innovative cities that foster freedom, prosperity, and collaboration. From the challenges of scaling ambitious projects to the philosophy that drives his work, this conversation dives deep into what it takes to rethink how societies grow and thrive.
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Regarding the regulation discussion and quality of control. At some point Erick A. Brimen says that private entities are able to match the safety/quality control and even do it better than government regulations. However, I believe that historically we learned that this isn't necessarily how it tends to work out. Boeing for example kept cutting corners further and further until regulators had to step in after hundreds of people died due to negligence. Clearly Boeing didn't feel the need to make sure their quality control met a certain level. The Thalidomide tragedy is another example where a private company failed to reach basic levels of quality control. The aftermath of the drug causing birth defects in thousands of children thankfully resulted in regulatory agencies across the world becoming significantly more strict with the process of bringing drugs to the market. You could make the argument that capitalism will weed out the 'bad' companies that don't have good quality control which incentivizes having a good product, but at what cost? How many deaths are acceptable in the pursuit of the capitalist dream? In addition, the company that brought Thalidomide to the market is still operating to this day as a pharmaceutical company specializing in pain management. They managed to survive the biggest scandal in modern medical history. As it stands it doesn't feel like a bridge was made and I just distrust this guy as I felt like you could easily poke some holes into his ideas. Am I just not familiar with the examples where it DID work out? It's certainly possible. But now I will likely never know. I would have loved to see him being asked why he believes he can do regulation and quality control better than a governmental agency and how. As it stands the conversation felt a bit surface level where he was just rambling a bunch. In general this podcast had more pushback and conflict than others which I for sure appreciate! Keep it up!
Filip Aleksic
2024-12-27 15:00:22 +0000 UTCLMAO even
Korys
2024-12-26 10:04:39 +0000 UTCLOL
Kyla Turner
2024-12-25 00:17:39 +0000 UTCWhat the heck happened at 02:04:40
kittyandrew
2024-12-24 17:48:51 +0000 UTCvery nice episode. sorry, but some others in comparison feel like abstract cultural circlejerk
kittyandrew
2024-12-24 16:01:51 +0000 UTC
