Which industry will have to go the foreign offsourcing route next?

[Deja Q]

If this belongs in GD, please move it. :D

Medical industry: Doctors cost a lot. It's getting to the point where taking a flight overseas would cost less. It would also help the struggling airline industry...

Movie/tv industry. ONE ticket to see a movie costs $10.25 in New York. Movies start out with 6 minutes of COMMERCIALS in addition to movie previews. If you get in a minute late, you're forced to wait for the next showing because they want you to see the commercials. Then you watch the movie, starring glossy lameoid actors like Tom Cruise and Keanu Reeves, while far better actors always remain as B-level actors with lower salaries... (there are so few modern-day examples that I can't think of any off the top of my head...) Not to forget that many movies often use product placement. Not product placement that blends in, I mean vulgar shameless, OUT THERE product placement because the company was the highest bidder.

Actors. Well, if cartoons are made in Korea (South Korea I'd presume), how much longer before we replace America's pampered bunch with a bunch of people overseas? They'll work for much less... And as corporate america controls all and they're neocon lickers, while the pampered stars are generally Democrat (if not DINO, what do they do with their big salaries again? :shrug: ), you can expect this industry to go someday as well.

Nursing homes. They're a bit costly, aren't they? Why not shove 'em all to Greenland and save a few thou$and?

Other - I love hearing examples of who's gonna go next...

[Kamika]

1. medical is already moving but here

tonss of indian doctors comes here to work for wages that wouldn't be considered by american doctors

[laura888]

4. well.... what if I went to India to be treated?

would they? (I assume they have socialized medicine and I don't pay Indian taxes)

[Kamika]

8. I think so

I doubt very much India has socialized healthcare.. it's more likely the rich get it while the poor has no chance

[SheilaT]

2. In NYC they really won't let someone

into a theater after they start showing previews? Really?

And yet in live productions people are allowed to take seats late and disrupt the production?

I personally count on the seven or eight minutes of previews and ads as a buffer time for getting into a theater. In fact, if I know there won't be many people at a particular showing, I time it to get in partway through the previews, most of which I've see already because I go so often. And then I can eat my popcorn during the film, not before it.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. SAG is already fighting this

The Screen Actor's Guild has issued statements against productions taking place in Canada, because it means American actors lose work. I have an actor friend (one of those B-actors you talked about, a real gentleman as well as a class act) who is Canadian but works in both the US and Canada. He's worried about productions moving even farther offshore, so I'd say this issue is worrisome for all North American actors.

[Nikia]

5. Medical will always be here

You will always need the medical personel to be close to the sick. Most doctors don't do house calls, but people expect a hospital or doctor's office to be a short drive away in any reasonably populated area. I do think, though, that many hospitals and clinics are hiring more foreign educated doctors who may be willing to work for less.

[FlaGranny]

6. A lot of the medical

transcription industry has already moved to India and the Philippines.

[leftofthedial]

7. The Legislative Branch of the federal government

The Executive Branch has already been outsourced

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. "If you get in a minute late, you're forced to wait for the next showing

...because they want you to see the commercials." :wtf: IS THAT FOR REAL???