Mansa Musa did little to accumulate his wealth, he inherited it from the former king [1] (according to some - his uncle) and their family created wealth by mining salt and gold, so much so that the normal people traded salt and gold in equal amounts [2]. https://twitter.com/joebradford/status/1286567149285384192
According to Oliver [2] the generosity of Mansa Musa was so much that he took 12 thousand on his carriage to Hajj and not only that, his charitable giving during his stops on the way to Makkah were so much so that the price of gold reached all time lows, most notably in Mamluk..
..Egpyt for the next 12 years. Without his (and his predecessor's) generosity the people would never have been able to trade salt or even a sandal for gold! To compare him to a modern billionaire who exploits his workers seems very wrong, while Mansa Musa handsomely rewarded his.
[1] Al-Umari's Masaalik al-absaar, cited in Levtzion and Hopkins (2000) pp. 268-269

[2] P. James Oliver's Mansa Musa and The Empire of Mali
Outside of the point, an interesting point made in the first reference was that Mansa Musa was asked how he came to power. He responded that his family members inherited and passed on the kingdom to their children. He said his predecessor wished to sail the Atlantic and left only
To never return. And so Mansa Kankan Musa came into power, left behind as the Sultan's proxy, and he took the empire to greater heights, although the wealth was there and probably still is available in the same places that the Malian empire had found it.
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