  Singer’s principle implies that morality sometimes requires us to make enormous sacrifices. The demand is placed not only on individuals with disposable incomes, but on all reasonably well-off persons, foundations, governments, corporations, etc. All parties have moral obligations to refrain from spending resources on nonessential items and to use the available resources or savings to lend assistance to those in urgent need. Frills, fashion, luxuries, and the like are never to determine expenditures, and one is to give to the needy up to the point that one (or one’s dependent) would be impoverished. Singer does not regard such conduct as an enormous moral sacrifice, but only as the discharge of a basic obligation of beneficence.