Among the Trobriand islanders, Bronisław Malinowski found men sailing dangerous seas to hand over shell valuables they would never keep — necklaces travelling one way around a ring of islands, armshells the other. This is the kula.
Marcel Mauss saw the pattern everywhere: the gift is never free. To give is to place the receiver in your debt, and the only way to discharge that debt is to give onward. So valuables never stop — they circulate, and their circulation is what binds rival communities into one society. The bond is made by giving, not by receiving.
Which is why hoarding is social suicide. Keep the valuables and your obligations mount, your partners stop dealing with you, and the wealth you clutch is simply drained from the ring. Give generously and you become a big man — honored precisely because you kept nothing.
The simulation stopped unexpectedly — the lesson continues without it. You can move on; nothing you did was wrong.