A report on a peculiar philosophy of our times. It has enabled
countless high-earners and 1-percenters to justify their lifestyles, par-
ticularly in technology and financial/quantitative circles. They do so
by giving back intermittently to faraway lands, hence our choice of
title “Everywhere but at home”. We look at its foundations, its main
promoters, the institutions they are associated with and from which
they draw their false aura. We argue that Peter Singer et al. may have
finally found a solution to what we call the Galbraith equation : the
fitting moral justification of greed. Every age deserves its set of new
philosophies : “Effective Altruism” is that of Facebook, Jane Street,
Two Sigma and co..