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>you can't use the same labor to replicate the parts.
I didn't say that. The guys in China, or any place that tries that, won't be unskilled labour.
What I said is, that design streamlined for production is easier to copy on an industry scale than one offs where you have to depend on labour that in some cases even took part in the development to do their magic to make it happen. And the more hands off it gets, the more it's just replicating tooling and setting up your own production line, which China excels in.
they can easily shove out Golfs, but on 1971 Lotus F1 cars