For years free trade agreements have put manufacturing workers in the U.S. in direct competition with their developing country counterparts with the purpose of driving down wages in the U.S. and bringing in cheaper imported goods. All the while highly paid service sector workers such as lawyers, doctors, CPAs, and the like are shielded from competition from developing country service sector workers who would be glad to come to the U.S. and enjoy relatively higher wages. This effectively means that highly paid professionals get to enjoy the benefits of cheaper imported goods, while still having their inflated salaries. This has exacerbated inequality in the U.S. due to the fact that manufacturing workers who have effectively had their wages driven down still have to pay for expensive professional services that have not commensurately come down. This is not only economically inefficient, it is ethically wrong due to the fact that lawyers are the ones who actually author free trade agreements and corporate and special interest groups representing the professional service sector are usually at the negotiating table when they are being authored