Given the generally accepted ideal of equality in the rich and educated world it strikes me as crazy that we continue to work hard to keep refugees out of our islands of wealth instead of structurally working on improving the chances of all people on earth. We seem to just turn a blind eye to this huge inequality or even increase and abuse it when it suits us. For example: Why don't we apply our minimum wage laws to the cheap foreign labor we depend on for our cheap products? Why don't we spend a significant part of our riches on improving education across the world? The same goes for universal food and health care. Why do we apparently feel that people who happen to be born somewhere else are inherently less valuable than us? Imagine what we could achieve if we would maximize the chances given to all people. We would all become richer from it together in the long run. But somehow even just thinking about something like this mostly just makes others laugh or at best uncomfortably chuckle at such a silly idealist.