Utilitarianism and the Future

If we take utilitarianism seriously and follow it all the way, then those of us in afan country should not be buying luxuries for ourselves when we could use the money to make a much bigger improvement in the lives of others. Utilitarian also has to ask the question, well, what should i advocate for others? What will really do the most good? So in some of my work, in the book the life you can save, for example, which people can down load free from thelifeyoucansave dot org, i suggest a table of giving which is not going to really cause real hardship to anybody. I start at one % for people on ordinary middle class incomes in aff