It's called Dutch disease, although you might know it as the Shoe Event Horizon. It's apparently possible for one sector of an economy to become so overheated that it is no longer economically feasible to work in another sector of the economy. This is already true in a very limited sense for certain aspects of the United States, most notably with regards to choice of careers at certain intelligence levels: if you are above 99th percentile but not quite in the 99.9999 percentile, the absolute best occupation for you is in finance, more specifically in trading. Second-year associates at Goldman Sachs can earn $350k a year, which is more than the average oncologist in his prime --- and the compensation only goes up from there. Therefore, you're literally throwing money away if you're smart enough to work at GS but don't, unless you are