The gumball one confirms for me something I've already been noticing and that is that refugees that we see arriving here are not the impoverished ones, they are the ones that can afford to escape. The really poor ones get left behind, likely to die, while we sit pretty thinking that we've done something good.

You've hit the nail on the head. Until we can help raise the rest of the world out of poverty, instead of clawing in what we can for our own comforts, nothing will change.