Outsourcing Tutoring

[mubs]

It's happening. Students in the U.S.A. being tutored by teachers in India. News.com story.

 

[jtr1962]

I give up. :evil: When unemployed/underemployed US consumers have no more money to buy all these good and services which are outsourced the asininie CEOs will realize that they shot themselves in the foot. Oh wait a minute. They don't care because they have their golden parachutes.

 

[sechs]

They're not looking out for the long-term interests of the shareholder.

The three-quarters outlook that most large corporations use is entirely too short to see the worst impacts of business decisions.

 

[mubs]

In the near term, professions that provide personal service will be ok. In the future, those will be at risk too. Local physicians are already being replaced by remote physicians using telemedicine. In the medium term (maybe 30 years?) your massage therapist and the waiter at your favorite restaurant may well be robots. The dentististry / surgery and similar professions may be the last haven.

 

[Fushigi]

The dentististry / surgery and similar professions may be the last haven.

Nah, that'll die off sooner as no one will have insurance or be able to afford to be worked on.

 

[LunarMist]

Do they know the difference between lose and loose?

 

[timwhit]

OK. I think I know the difference between the two.

Here are two example sentences.

I think my shoe laces are loose.

I don't want to lose my shoes.

Is that correct?

 

[LunarMist]

In the medium term (maybe 30 years?) your massage therapist and the waiter at your favorite restaurant may well be robots.

Does that mean I can get a massage whilst waiting for my appetizers? Cool.

 

[Fushigi]

In the medium term (maybe 30 years?) your massage therapist and the waiter at your favorite restaurant may well be robots.

Does that mean I can get a massage whilst waiting for my appetizers? Cool.

My wife had this happen, sort of, once. We went to a nice steak house. At some point she commented about sore shoulders or something so our waitress actually rubbed her shoulders for a couple of minutes.

 

[i]

The dentististry / surgery and similar professions may be the last haven.

Nah, that'll die off sooner as no one will have insurance or be able to afford to be worked on.

You're right, dentistry will die off sooner ... but it will be because you'll have the option to have replacement teeth regrown in place. My bet is that this will be available (albeit expensively) by 2015.

 

[i]

OK. I think I know the difference between the two.

Here are two example sentences.

I think my shoe laces are loose.

I don't want to lose my shoes.

Is that correct?

Yes.

Keep your noose loose (or not).

 

[Santilli]

They're not looking out for the long-term interests of the shareholder.

The three-quarters outlook that most large corporations use is entirely too short to see the worst impacts of business decisions.

Nailed that one...


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[mubs]

Fushigi: you're only looking at things from our (common man) point of view. Don't forget that the rich are getting richer, and the few percent in this country that are rich are very, very rich. They will pay (without feeling any pain of the monetary kind) for dental and surgical work.

 

[Fushigi]

But the basic medical care here will drop precipitously. Medical education will suffer, GPs will wither and die, etc. The best doctors will flee to other countries or work at small, private hospitals that cater tot he rich. Correspondingly, the rich will fly to another country where they can get quality care or go to those private hospitals.