Molson Hart

I think Amazon is a monopoly. In the past, government solved this by breaking up the monopoly into regional powerhouses or breaking the business into un-vertically-integrated parts. With this said, I don't think Amazon's business structure lends itself to this. Ideas?

Probably the easiest thing would be to break AWS from it. AWS's profits is what enables Amazon to pressure the competition with zero margins.

That's a misconception. Amazon has low margins only on big ticket items that it sells itself, like Samsung TVs. Amazon prints money on their 3rd party business. Amazon without AWS is still a standalone monopoly.

for manufacturing to become more local and break the subsidizing, FX fixing of China and any other actor that is subverting natural balancing trade of Ricardian economics. My view. /end.

I'm pretty sure we are far from the cusp of automating the jobs you listed. Just recently, the CEO of waymo expressed his skepticism that selfdriving cars would ever be able to work in the rain for example. No robot has human dexterity nor our vision, far from it.

Also, I'm not sure we would reach an equilibrium with China were they to free float their currency. The USD is the world reserve currency and as much as we are a net importer from China, they like holding dollars and stuff like U.S. real estate.