It is a thankfulness meditation, which is a basic ingredient for feeling content. And rich people need to feel content as well. It is sort of like prayer, but to actual real beings. That's why I thought it could be an atheist manifesto.

Or for people who feel guilty about how they got rich and need to feel forgiven or something.

The rich are no different to the poor. They can't take their wealth with them.

> The rich are no different to the poor. They can't take their worldly possessions with them to the next life.

This holds true, assuming that there's an afterlife of any sort.

If there isn't, then the rich would simply live lavish lives, before ceasing to exist. Same outcome as for the rest of people, rather different experience during their lives.

Some people are so poor, all they have is money

Man cannot live by bread alone.

Please don't take HN threads into religious flamewar. Last thing we need here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

My apologies. I was simply responding to a religious argument but got carried away.