That may be true for highly labor intensive roles but a fully automated operation is _more_ profitable when the few jobs that are required are staffed by traine

That may be true for highly labor intensive roles but a fully automated operation is _more_ profitable when the few jobs that are required are staffed by trained personnel. That is one of the reasons this factory isn't located in a poorer area. It's in Ft. Collins _because_ the profitability projections assume they can operate at somewhere better than 97% uptime.