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by rgbrenner 2237 days ago
You picked a bad industry to make that point. Newspapers, magazines, etc frequently outsource work, including writing:

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/19/business/worldbusiness/19...

https://archives.cjr.org/short_takes/outsourced_edit.php

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/oct/07/reuters.pressa...

more recent: https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/jul/27/jou...

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If you read the articles, I would say that the companies listed above (like the NYT) are not the ones outsourcing, the outsourcing is quite limited in scope, and mostly is design jobs, not writing jobs.

I thought it was a great analogy.