Sharing Resources
Ubuntu requires sharing resources with those in need. Accumulating wealth while others lack basic needs violates fundamental humanity.
Ubuntu requires sharing resources with those in need. Accumulating wealth while others lack basic needs violates fundamental humanity.
The rich person is one who has many friends, not one who has many possessions.
African Economic Ethics
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- What Ubuntu means: I am because we are
Holding wealth while people nearby lack necessities is treated as a failure of humanity rather than a private choice. The Swahili proverb the library gives measures a rich person by their friends rather than their possessions.