I think more of African people would understand this better where economy system can be so hard and the people struggles to make living and add values to their lives while those opportuned to breakthrough those hard times are being overweighted to grow higher due to responsibility surrounding them.
This is more prevalent in Africa because of the mindset that the people from onset about their beliefs, superstitions or cultural practices. The first child of the family are most times the only one privileged to go to school and attain higher success than the rest, in return, he/she has to be the provider and dependent of the family which in most cases when they’re overwhelmed by too much expenses, they end up not fulfilling their promise and what they’ve earned can’t be taken back again.
It is good to raise those around you so that they don’t become dependent on you and the idea of sponsoring only one person to school for others to be reliant on them is no more working since there’s no availability of work even after school and you’ve to struggle also to earn a means of living through the hard economic conditions. Those without western education are even becoming more successful than those that went to school. When you follow a system that you don’t need dependency on any other system, you’ll prevail than those that depend on that system to survive.