So you have no problems with employees stealing the odd petty cash here or there for their side hustle, right?

As a shareholder? No. Tiny losses are not of concern to me. I am concerned with large scale long term outcomes not obsessing over not losing hundredths of a percent of revenue.

> This is a tiny amount of money compared to the daily cost of running TSLA

Software isn’t the same as making floor mats. Your major production factors are having people with the right skills, knowledge, and time to focus — while their salaries are a drop in Tesla’s daily operational cost, the real question should be how much it disrupts their development schedule. Given how far behind they are on features which they’ve already sold, to the point of having government investigations, I’d tend to think that the disruption of pulling them away from their planned work is a lot more expensive than just the time billed.