User Experience Design Soon to be a Flooded Industry?

Being trained traditionally as a Graphic Designer, I have noticed a field that has evolved from Art departments without a single computer to a variety of disciplines in web, print, application, and UI design. With the influx of these job varieties comes a demand for talented people, however, Graphic Design has suffered from an exploitation of its core values. These days anyone can be a designer. “Call for you free art test”, “Get your degree in 2 years”, “Do you like to draw?”, “Wanna make more money?”… Daytime television is riddled with these calls for the uncertain to take a chance with design. The problem is not that the field has become popular; it is that the accessibility of the degree has become unchallenging, flooding our field with people who rather see a paycheck than someone enjoying one of their creations.  A good designer always thinks about the experience of his or her audience and while we have adopted User Experience into a field of its own, it requires passionate people.  And as a witness to the 2 year Online Graphic Designer Degree Factories, I hope User experience doesn't suffer the same fate.