Stealing IP mostly helps manufacturing, It doesn't really help innovation One of the lies we were told was that only manufacturing and other low-value-add acti

Stealing IP mostly helps manufacturing, It doesn't really help innovation One of the lies we were told was that only manufacturing and other low-value-add activities would be going offshore, all the high-pay and -prestige design work would be staying in the West. But Japan showed in the 80s and 90s that once a country has achieved a level of manufacturing, design comes naturally and quality comes naturally, and the hollowing out of the West shows that once you lose manufacturing, your design capabilities stagnate. And now the West is squandering what little it has left making the same mistake with China. We even say it on this site often enough, ideas are cheap, executing is hard. Manufacturing is executing.