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.
-Pogge's theory is based on the fact that
A) resource-rich poor countries are exploited for the benefit of industrial countries.
B) there is no evidence that "trickle-down" wealth is beneficial to the poor.
C) Industrial countries share equally in the wealth with resource-rich poor countries.
D) both a and b
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