Reply #3: Sometimes jobs that people at first thought couldn't

[SheilaT]

be outsourced, turn out to be readily outsourcible.

Several years ago a physician friend of mind became greatly disturbed to learn that a lot of radiology, mainly the reading of x-rays and the like, were being outsourced. Naturally this doctor had friends who were radiologists, so that was some of the concern, but it was couched more in terms of "How can I trust that the radiologist in India is doing as good a job as the one here in the hospital."

I don't think that doctor really got it that more jobs than people realize can be outsourced or eliminated. I'm looking forward to the day when the fast food restaurants are totally automated, no humans working there at all, and everything is paid for with credit or debit card so that there's no cash on the premises. Don't laugh. It could happen.