Canny homeworkers 'out source' work

I had a fascinating discussion with someone today whose friend is a contract programmer. The friend works from home and where possible sends the work he has offshore to be done, then checks it and uploads it per his contract. Apparently he gets the work done for 30% of his hourly rate so make 60% without doing any work. While sub-contracting is common in production programming, it is not common (or probably expected) in personal contracting.

This raised the question in my mind as to whether home workers (employees) will get in on this and start outsourcing their work to cheaper providers. If you think this is unlikely check out this site that writes academic essays for you (for a fee), the extension of these types of services to doing my job for me is not that hard to imagine. http://www.assignmentmakers.com/Default.aspx

The question that this raises, is how can this happen and how will it be managed in the future? My thesis is that our relationships to work/study is becoming more remote. Historically workers were apprenticed and students met lecturers face to face, therefore it was difficult (not impossible) to fake personal effort. With the coming of the internet the relationship between employee/boss and lecturer/teacher are becoming more and more remote. It will be interesting to see what social system develops to control this. For example contract law developed in England in the 19th century in response to mass production and imports from overseas that broke the traditionally strong relationship between grower/manufacturer and consumer, necessitating a code of conduct (common law contracts) to ensure fair behaviour (as the traditional  'relationship controls' no longer worked). What do you think?