The United States has such a large GDP because 1/3 of it is the private healthcare industry. Another massive chunk is the government throwing tax dollars at a shell company of a shell company of a shell company that moves a government contract for construction around to each other 4 times, all subsequently increasing GDP.
And yet Yanks will mock China for struggling to build a 3nm chip while their own country struggles to build a pier. As if one isn't cutting edge high tech and the other isn't maritime technology that's been "solved" for two hundred years.
The argument I’ve seen Americans using is “well only the US would try/ could build a pier in a war zone halfway across the world” which is entirely untrue.
First, almost every country at war does this.
Second, China regularly builds piers all over the world at a fraction of the cost and multiple times the capacity of this one.
Third, the US didn’t really build a pier at all if it is unusable and breaking after just a week.
But that’s the point anyway. It never had to work. The US just had to pretend to be doing something.
Me at my office job
It’s the American way
America still leading the world in the development and application of cope.
And it is truly some cutting edge stuff
America be quiet quitting
I've seen pleasure docks more stable