[bvw]

"pharmacists living in other parts of the world copied"

That is why we used to have a concept called borders, and import tariffs. Good things, both. In the animal kingdom, things without borders and restrictions on imports are called slime-mold.

[LowCountryJoe]

Quotas and tariffs are nice little euphemisms for central planning and benevolence. I'm really surprised that someone that seems to have such a sharp mind -such as yourself - can't recognize socialism however it is practiced. Tariffs were one of the very few things that the founders had wrong.