Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead

https://davidoks.blog/p/how-funerals-keep-africa-poor

How funerals keep Africa poor

Why the poorest people in the world spend fortunes burying their dead

David Oks

> Modernity is about not doing what your family says

The flip side is that rich and modern people feel lonely and sad that they don't have strong social bonds.

Ok, so better to be poor and backward, eh ?
perhaps.