I kind of agree with your point. The way I foresee it is, if extracting every bit of value from manual labor becomes costly, for a business, that means compara

I kind of agree with your point. The way I foresee it is, if extracting every bit of value from manual labor becomes costly, for a business, that means comparatively the automation option is becoming cheaper. Subsidies / tax breaks etc for the businesses can ensure that manual labor in warehouses is not so easily replaced by automation. But that can only work until a certain point. Problem is not with existing set of automation solutions. It is with making the future solutions for automation more attractive. in future, if a fully automated warehouse is possible, then no one (from the society) get's to decide how a warehouse worker should be treated, because they don't exist. It's like the elevator operators in the past (they dont exist in most countries if not any). That's how I see the current set of warehouse workers (they can get automated out even before truck/car drivers).