And like with outsourcing it starts with the jobs at the lower end of the skill range in an industry, and so people at the higher end don't worry about it, and later it expands and they learn that they too are not safe.

What happened a couple of decades ago in poetry [1] could happen now with programming:

> No longer is it just advertising jingles and limericks made in Haiti and Indonesia. It's quatrains, sonnets, and free-form verse being "outsourced" to India, the Philippines, Russia, and China.

...

> "Limericks are a small slice of the economy, and when people saw globalization creating instability there, a lot said, 'It's not my problem,'" says Karl Givens, an economist at Washington's Economic Policy Institute. "Now even those who work in iambic pentameter are feeling it."

[1] http://www.watleyreview.com/2003/111103-2.html