The complication isn't in the "anyone can do it" it's the more meaty subject of intellectual property and in general globalism. If you get your people in your

The complication isn't in the "anyone can do it" it's the more meaty subject of intellectual property and in general globalism. If you get your people in your country/continent to build your stuff you have effectively a revolving door of people whose skills are available to you, laws are amicable and familiar, and their taxes go to improving the land you built on. If you outsource things you may get it cheaper (labor arbitrage) while maintaining high profit margins on your IP. The problem comes when that country goes through an industrial revolution, or discusses worker rights, or gets into a shouting match with your country. Now, you may be forced to get labor in your country at which point you'll start from the bottom. Worse yet, you've given those other countries your IP. IP laws are not international. Once your country becomes enemies of theirs they will certainly begin building your stuff to the exact same quality specifications you had them build it to. We see this quite frequently with China. It is no coincidence a new product releases in the west, and after a short time, the exact same product with the same pieces under a different name is found on Alibaba. Long term, this is not a survivable situation. IP is effectively worthless if you don't control the labor that can build it. We do this typically through patents and trademarks. Once you lose control over that you lose control over your IP. No amount of trying to take another country to court will save you.