The Death of the Professions

The numbers in this article are startling.

The tide is going far, far out.

I did not expect to see this sharp decline in law yet—I thought medicine was more vulnerable. But nobody comes from China or the Middle East to the US to study law, because American law does not apply back home. So the law schools are being hit by a student shortage that is masked in other disciplines by rising numbers of international students.

It seems that, with so many legal forms available online, and with Internet search capabilities, a lot of the traditional lawyer’s job is no longer necessary.

Makes me wonder what we are all going to do for a living here in North America, with manufacturing all gone overseas, service gone to call centres abroad, storefronts closing due to Internet shopping, and the professions being replaced by the internet.

The obvious answer is that we are all going to work on the Internet. But there will be no more advantages to simply living in North America—you can log in just as easily from Mumbai as Manhattan.