Writers probably put those passages in so poor people would feel good that rich people were apparently getting punished even when they saw them live lives of extravagance.
I love how much effort christians have put into explaining away things like it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for the rich to go to heaven. It's a mistranslation, you just need to unburden yourself, blah blah blah. When really it was quite a common idiom meaning impossible.
All we had to do to make Christianity decline was belabor how antithetical it was to the only value, mooaaaaaaar, of our sociopath capitalist owner class.
They control the means of mass propaganda, and the rest is history. Christianity was hurting their rebranding of the sin, character flaw, and personality deficit that is greed into the Orwellian virtue of "rational self-interest."
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for
your miseries that shall come upon you.
Your riches are corrupted, and your
garments are motheaten
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust
of them shall be a witness against you, and
shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have
heaped treasure together for the last days.
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have
reaped down your fields, which is of you
kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of
them which have reaped are entered into the
ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and
been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts,
as in a day of slaughter.
Ye have condemned and killed the just; and
he doth not resist you.
