The Life you can Save by Peter Singer

What could be better than a book that provides a rational explanation of why it’s good to contribute to charity? Infortunately, The Life You Can Save doesn’t quite reach its goal and alternates between a shaming exercise of various well-known rich folks who really should be a little more generous (Larry Ellison, Paul Allen) and… many reasons why we can’t really trust charities to spend our money properly. By the end, I was rooting for Ellison to buy another yacht — I kid, but the book just did not work for me.