Molson Hart

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.

I saw the Waymo exec comments. That remains to be seen. But it's not binary. Technology can make truck driving so low skill that the labor pool becomes large driving wages down.

I think the threshold for driving a truck is low enough. Maybe what self driving cars could do as an intermediary step is have a human drive around the city (and unloading) and the truck do the city to city highway driving.

Not that I'm a logistics expert, but your driving record is very important in truck driving work. I would think technology will improve accident records increasing pool. I agree with you. Human can sleep and work more. The tech human interaction will be one to watch.