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VladRussian on March 21, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Misconceptions about the Khan Academy

well, i don't see any scared lawyers or doctors though we can come up with a lot of ways to outsource and automate [significant part of] their jobs. Actually the outsourcing and the automation have been successfully happening there (an actual example, the detailed hi-res microscope pictures are sent to India, analyzed there and results here are signed off by US licensed professional - everybody is happy, software provider, India employees and the US professional) and so far these industries have mostly embraced it.

ZachPruckowski on March 22, 2011 | [–]

Lawyers get outsourced. Usually just the routine paperwork stuff that the associates would otherwise handle, but they don't get off scot-free.

kenjackson on March 21, 2011 | [–]

There's also not a wholesale attack by an entire political party and news network against either of those professions.

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