Peter Singer | What Should a Billionaire Give-And What Should

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Peter Singer | What Should a Billionaire Give-And What Should You?
Singer explores the ethical issues associated with philanthropy on a large scale, such as the billions of dollars donated by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, including questions raised concerning motive, obligation, and relation to government aid. He concludes with a hypothetical calculus of distribution for the wealthy to the poor that would more than solve the crisis of poverty among the world's poorest peoples.
-The ethics of philanthropy, according to Singer, concern

• A) why and how much wealthy people give to others.
• B) the decision-making power of so few to change so many lives.
• C) how our responses to these gifts reflect on our own lives.
• D) all of the above

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