America's economy was built for a post-WWII world with a levelled Europe and a still feudal Asia. It was never designed to compete with economies of nations with the equivalent tooling and production methods. That's why Japanese cars took massive shares of the automotive market seemingly overnight, it's why every automotive manufacturing job has been shipped to Mexico, it's why this country will continue to hemorrhage it's 20th century legacy and Americans will continue to look around puzzled.