"If we don't work harder, more efficiently, we'll be overtaken by country X, and be destitute" Before the days of the Internet, this might have been true (beca

"If we don't work harder, more efficiently, we'll be overtaken by country X, and be destitute" Before the days of the Internet, this might have been true (because it takes much longer for it to happen). But many companies can now hire overseas employees which will directly complete with potential employees in the US.