The people’s attitude toward riches is condemned, and the land is cursed. Riches and resultant pride are constantly recurring problems, back then and still today. Notice the cyclical phenomenon in Helaman 4:12; 7:21, 26; 13:31–33; 3 Nephi 6:15; Doctrine and Covenants 38:39; see also commentary at Jacob 2:12–16 and Jacob 2:17–19 and illustration at Ether 9–11.