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Remember that Nike only manufactures a small amount itself. Most is contracted out to factories overseas with different incentives.

Nike does their manufacturing in sweatshops. Probably already cheaper than robots and technicians would cost.

Sewing is hard problem for robots but they are already here and promise prices similar to low wage countries: https://softwearautomation.com/

> I’d guess if they could do away with human labor for $500M they would just do it.

I see what you did there :)