Financial Times: IT graduates struggle to find work

Re:Financial Times: IT graduates struggle to find work by vlad on Saturday July 05, 2008 @02:16PM (#237124)

It will be funny when doctors and lawyers are outsourced. Programming was outsourced not because it is an easy profession but because it was the entire profession that enabled outsourcing, and so was looked onto as magical by people who had never seen computers or had as good a way to make a living before.

But there's really no reason why outsourcing will be limited to manufacturing and IT, especially as the kids of the 3rd world IT specialists grow up and choose new professions for themselves. You really only need surgeons, dentists, nurses, and pill dispensing machines on shore. American law books and internal medicine facts can be studied very well off-shore, and trials and meetings can be held via online video. Everything would be digital and operate even faster than ever before. Nurses would have two main specialties, consisting of taking care of the old and taking a patient's vitals for off-shore doctors and computers that are good at predicting events and prescribing solutions, to calculate.

This would also reduce the costs of healthcare for everybody. ;)

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Re:Financial Times: IT graduates struggle to find work by esja on Saturday July 05, 2008 @06:01PM (#237341)

Without wanting to start a debate about licensing, unionisation and so on, I expect that to take decades. Much of the enabling technology is here now, but the medical and legal industries have decades (or even centuries) of experience in limiting entry to their industry and thereby maintaining high wages... er, I mean, "high standards". They won't let this happen without a PR war on whichever government is "allowing it to happen".

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