The point I was making about corruption/family is also what happened with native Americans in a lot of places, I understand. Almost any really poor people have as an ethos that things are shared rather than owned. You give me a salary that seems OK or even small to a coloniZER, I the coloniZED will see it as unbounded riches that I could not possibly just keep to myself. It would be a crime not to share, in my book, and it would be a crime *to* share in theirs.

Not corruption by my standards, no matter how many times you explain to me that my cousins don't get any because they are not employees.

And cousin is broadly defined, too.

Hi ELiza!