Chineese really simple people. You got what you pay for. Just that simple. If you pay Chineese good money they make a good product. If you pay a little you get garbage. They are not like Europeans who will still try to do the job right even if paid less. Chineese will just make worse product if you pay less. Without any thoughts. You need a hand drill - OK. If you pay reasonable money they will make a perfect drill, with good copper-coiled brushless motor, steel gears, quality plastic body and precision chuck. It will be really good tool, may be even better than Western brand one. If you tell that there will be slightly less money - they without problems and questions will make you a drill with working brushed motor, plastic gears and still decent body. If you will pay them little, they again, without any thoughts, questions and single warning will make you drill too. It will still look like you want, but will be made from complete garbage - weak plastic, shitty chuck, aluminium coiled brushed motors (with short and unchangeable brushes) and gears from the unknown substance resembling dried snot. And it will be assembled using worst possible wires and screws. And they will do it with same smile, just like in first case. You could name any price and they will say - OK, we will do it.

IDK, Chineese have completely different attitude to the creating things for money. They assume that customer better know what he want and that is why he pay that price. They don't care about quality of product at all, they care only about providing the product to the customer for his price.

You could observe that thing on the example of formerly good Western brands. When they moved production to China, initially things had decent quality. But the "effective managers" began to "save money". They come to Chineese and ask - "could you make that same thing but for lower money?". Cheneese answer - "Of course we can, no problem, where is your money". "Effective managers" got their bonuses for "saving money" and end consumers got thing that looks exactly like older ones, but with lower quality. "Effective managers" of the brand did that trick multiple times, and "suddenly", we now have brand things made from garbage and like garbage.

So, really, playing that game with Chineese, Musk will just get complete garbage instead of same thing for lower price. AFAIK, the quality of latest Tesla models already worsening. So, Musk will just get what he paid for. No less, no more.

Chineese really simple people. You got what you pay for. Just that simple. If you pay Chineese good money they make a good product. If you pay a little you get garbage. They are not like Europeans who will still try to do the job right even if paid less. Chineese will just make worse product if you pay less. Without any thoughts. You need a hand drill - OK. If you pay reasonable money they will make a perfect drill, with good copper-coiled brushless motor, steel gears, quality plastic body and precision chuck. It will be really good tool, may be even better than Western brand one. If you tell that there will be slightly less money - they without problems and questions will make you a drill with working brushed motor, plastic gears and still decent body. If you will pay them little, they again, without any thoughts, questions and single warning will make you drill too. It will still look like you want, but will be made from complete garbage - weak plastic, shitty chuck, aluminium coiled brushed motors (with short and unchangeable brushes) and gears from the unknown substance resembling dried snot. And it will be assembled using worst possible wires and screws. And they will do it with same smile, just like in first case. You could name any price and they will say - OK, we will do it.

IDK, Chineese have completely different attitude to the creating things for money. They assume that customer better know what he want and that is why he pay that price. They don't care about quality of product at all, they care only about providing the product to the customer for his price.

You could observe that thing on the example of formerly good Western brands. When they moved production to China, initially things had decent quality. But the "effective managers" began to "save money". They come to Chineese and ask - "could you make that same thing but for lower money?". Cheneese answer - "Of course we can, no problem, where is your money". "Effective managers" got their bonuses for "saving money" and end consumers got thing that looks exactly like older ones, but with lower quality. "Effective managers" of the brand did that trick multiple times, and "suddenly", we now have brand things made from garbage and like garbage.

So, really Musk will just get complete garbage instead of same thing for lower price. AFAIK, the quality of latest Tesla models already worsening. So, Musk will just get what he paid for. No less, no more.