{"id":988,"date":"2025-06-05T22:07:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T22:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=988"},"modified":"2025-06-05T22:07:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T22:07:43","slug":"we-wanted-human-capital-we-got-human-beings-dan-davies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/we-wanted-human-capital-we-got-human-beings-dan-davies\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cwe wanted human capital, we got human beings\u201d &#8211; Dan  Davies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThe issue here is not really one that can be solved by planning law, because it\u2019s fundamentally a problem of political economy. Whatever powers you give to accelerate and streamline the objection process, if there is any local democracy at all, it is just simply very difficult to do something which is opposed by a large group of energetic and well-connected middle class people. The only currently available strategy for dealing with this political problem \u2013 calling them selfish middle class bastards on podcasts \u2013 doesn\u2019t really work\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/backofmind.substack.com\/p\/we-wanted-human-capital-we-got-human\">https:\/\/backofmind.substack.com\/p\/we-wanted-human-capital-we-got-human<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe issue here is not really one that can be solved by planning law, because it\u2019s fundamentally a problem of political economy. Whatever powers you give to accelerate and streamline the objection process, if there is any local democracy at all, it is just simply very difficult to do something which is opposed by a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}