Would you 3D print your shoes one day?

Would you 3D print your shoes one day?

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    16 hours ago

    They will probably be overpriced compared to manufacturing costs, just like Crocs.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      15 hours ago

      That has always been the case. Nike is notorious for using overseas sweat shops where children work their fingers to the bone for $0.50 an hour. It probably costs Nike a couple bucks to make a $200 shoe, if that. But they spend billions on advertising, celebrity endorsements, political bribes contributions, and yachts, so it’s not all profit.

    • Num10ck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      15 hours ago

      mfg cost is nothing compared to marketing and shipping and retail channel and design and lawyers and engineering and accounting etc

  • Lodespawn@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    12 hours ago

    I mean … I would … but I certainly wouldn’t waste my time printing those abominations 🤮

    • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      31·
      16 hours ago

      But, hey, at least that child labor army can move onto more qualified work, like routing circuitry in Chinese plastic tchotchkes and mobile devices, eh? Viva la revoluçion! 😶‍🌫️

    • Death_Equity@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      13 hours ago

      Heavens no, they have families to feed. The kids monitor the print process, use their fingers to test nozzle temp, load spools, and allow management to work out their problems through various forms of abuse.

      • Jarix@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        12 hours ago

        Whoa whoa whoa, i didn’t say no kids just the good ones that can do the work of all the ones not needed. And no we didn’t pay them more, less actually, since we have to re coup the cost of the new hardware. Don’t talk crazy talk

  • Turd Ferg@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    12 hours ago

    It looks like they designed the top half of a shoe and then ran out of money/ideas and had to 3d print the bottom. But its nike, so the sneaker heads will buy it up. They really cant fail at this point.