Americans are terrible at building transit infrastructure. They struggle to build basic metro extensions for the New York subway. California is still struggling to build high speed rail. Any infrastructure project is always extraordinarily expensive and slow.
Americans are terrible at urbanism. Their road design is a disaster.
American struggle at manufacturing. Their cars simply aren’t reliable. They are a joke. They struggle to make computer chips. Intel is failing. Both Biden and Trump asked TSMC to come to the US
Yet americans are exceptionally good at software
Why?
Too many cooks when it comes to infrastructure. Everyone is trying to get a piece of the pie so they fight and undercut each other until the cheapest option is chosen. Then the contractor cuts corners to keep more of the money. It’s all just a scam or grift all the way down.
Meanwhile software can be built by one guy coding in his basement.