Interesting snippet, thanks for posting. If I might offer anything useful after studying what I see is the global energy problem now for six years, and coming to some conclusions that seem to align with what I know about religions (not a lot!), including that profit is actually an unsustainable energy con, my thoughts on that snippet are that if he was talking about energy, that none of the rest of us had evolved enough to know about, he could have been pointing out the folly of saving the money for some point in the future, when none of us has control over the future, the money represented energy taken from Earth that would never be put back by other people using it to do valuable work. Imagine all the energy currently stored in all financial capital as stands right now, in the face of growing energy problems leading now to both war, and global weather and related calamities, this is a crazy situation, with profit at the root of all of it, like a bad Ai, it is an emergent property of all humans acting for profit.
Makes perfect sense to me.