firing a lawyer, a caster, one sculpter, half a stewardess, an airport cocktail waitress and 3.1 consultants.

If this gets big it will push a lot of low-to-middle trained people, especially in the third world, into unemployment and straight over the edge into poverty. Couple this with robotics (and a highly sober grandpa sitting at home in nebraska driving your taxi), and I see a lot of jobs recently outsourced returning home – simply to mop up mass unemployed people voting gradually more towards the leftist end of the political spectrum. If unemployment levels get high enough I am sure we’d see protectionism return very hard and fast. Even places like the US are no longer immune, not unless they change their prisons into “spare organ storage facilities”.