IP is only copied, not stolen. It goes both ways -- Tesla learned how to efficiently build and operate their factories from the Chinese. And as Elon always says, manufacturing is 1000x as hard as design and prototyping.

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lnsru 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Tesla bought a company called Grohmann Automation in 2017, factory automation company. I am not sure what Tesla learned from Chinese…

	▲	bryanlarsen 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Tesla's first purpose built car factory was built in China using mostly local expertise. Their Berlin factory is basically a copy of their Chinese factory. Grohmann Automation was to super automate their factories, which is why the Model 3 roll out was such a disaster and which they abandoned in favour of conventional car manufacturing techniques.

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billy99k 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Using this definition, identities are only copied, and not stolen.

Learning from the Chinese is entirely different than using operatives to take the corporate secrets from lets say the biggest steel company in the world, and then driving them out of business within a few years.

If this is the world you want to live in, fine. Just don't complain when large corporations copy your work one day with no legal oprecourse.