It is not good for a lot.of stuff, but it is good if you want to build shit.
“There isn’t a single answer to the question about why China can move fast and why we can’t, but Wang offers one I haven’t heard before. He says one of the most important distinctions between the US and China is that the US is a society run by lawyers and China is a society run by engineers — and that many of our differences flow from this divide.”
https://www.vox.com/the-gray-area/459355/china-us-infrastructure-building-housing-high-speed-rail