You're talking about outsourcing non-programmers. The guy who was asking was asking about outsourcing programmers.

I am wary of outsourcing. I've done some work on RentACoder ... most of the people there want cheap work done for crap. I've picked up some projects where I ended up fixing mistakes from other people's code. They were candidates for a DailyWTF submission. Some of these people were from overseas, and some were from right here in the US.

However, outsourcing non-intellectual-property stuff like the virtual assistant or a bookkeeper -- that sounds like a great idea. You don't really want to be messing with non-code-related details while coding.