If your plan for ensuring the continued wealth and competitiveness of your country and population relies on other countries not to develop, than possibly it's not a great plan.

My plan relies on politicians in the USA/UK considering the wellbeing of the workers in their country a priority over the wellbeing of workers in other countries and a priority over a small group of elite capital-holders. It's failing because they don't but that's a pretty sad statement about where we find ourselves politically.

Not to mention a new population of knowledge workers will produce their own demand, so it's not a zero sum game by any means.

More people that are educated buying more products for their bigger homes use more gasoline for their bigger cars going to bigger parties doing more things advertised to them. It's all set up to thrive from these destructive economics and we're exporting it one by one to nations around the globe.