INDIVIDUALS' SEARCH FOR PROFIT BRINGS IMMEDIATE RESTRAINT
In traditional Africa the newly-rich are admired if they share their wealth, tolerated if they spend it and sanctioned if they keep it: Griots (praise-singers) follow them, chanting acclaim...
Griots accompany a chief, Mali, early 20th century; they will certainly sing his praises.
Griots celebrating a birth, Senegal, 2006
That gradually becomes mockery of their servile origins until they give the expected tip — that is, until they distribute funds they might otherwise invest.
Expecting immigrants to distribute presents
when they return to their villages
and pestering them if don't do so enough:
same idea.
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