Outsourcing is an issue in the west currently because of the over-regulation. It is a pain in the ass to hire and fire people (i've heard the eu is even worse than the us) because you have to do lots of hr shit and whatever; it isn't as easy as writing them a check for their work. the regulation creates a CYA mentality where a large company can remove liability for a risky step in their process by hiring a smaller company to do that one part. There are companies who test industrial stuff (they don't fix anything) just so that if something goes wrong the factory can say "not our fault". This testing would be much better done by on site people who are trained in the testing and know everything about the facility, this would also be 10x cheaper (not even kidding), but then the company would be assuming liability. In the scenario where the printing presses slow down and the older generation (i need to stop calling them boomers because this triggers the hell out of them) sell off their stocks and property, shrinking the pie that everyone is eating from, i think that the companies doing this work are going to see a decline. This will also happen in the case (in the US at least) where things become managed by the states and regulations decrease. As long as the service that you provide is something real, something that you could market to your neighbor, it is great. If it is tax prep or grant writing, i would say to move on.