The problem with your world view is that it assumes a competent government, whereas nothing the government has ever done can be considered as such.

The US can't even maintain their physical infrastructure.

The US is trying to make it not require a commercial third party piece of software anymore to do taxes; something that has been common in many European countries for close to a decade. The US banking system is at least a decade behind various European systems. So, you expect me to believe that the US selectively acts like a moron, but secretly is super smart?

The design of US suburbs is a dystopia. Please, explain how the US is doing anything right at this moment. The US can't even kill insider trading in Congress, which is illegal in every sane part of the world. Every European country has a younger leader than Biden.

The US education system is biased towards rich people, which means the previously "prestigious" institutes are now nothing more than piggy banks without anything of value.

The only working part of the US economy is its military,