> For example: Why don't we apply our minimum wage laws to the cheap foreign labor we depend on for our cheap products?
Because that would destroy any economy that exists there? What would be incentive to start a business when some rich multinational can pay 5x more than you?
> Why don't we spend a significant part of our riches on improving education across the world?
Because there are better wats to spend 'riches'?
> Why do we apparently feel that people who happen to be born somewhere else are inherently less valuable than us?
You answered yourself, because they were born somewhere else. They don't share our core values, language, culture. It doesn't mean that we should consider them beneath us. But they're different and that's a fact.
> 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.
Because that would destroy any economy that exists there? What would be incentive to start a business when some rich multinational can pay 5x more than you?
> Why don't we spend a significant part of our riches on improving education across the world?
Because there are better wats to spend 'riches'?
> Why do we apparently feel that people who happen to be born somewhere else are inherently less valuable than us?
You answered yourself, because they were born somewhere else. They don't share our core values, language, culture. It doesn't mean that we should consider them beneath us. But they're different and that's a fact.
> 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.
Because those are laughable at best.