The bottom line on their company' s balance sheet was their only concern. In Russia, the rich got richer and the poor just got hungry. But, Paul did write in Gal. So it's not strange that somehow, in the middle of all that greed, the financial world lost its way and strange unexpected forces have begun to crush and mangle it. The stock markets around the world are collapsing.
Entire nations are bankrupt.
Many others are in or near depression. The value of currency is in free fall in many economies. The current stock market meltdown may or may not be the death rattle of the world's economy. To them, their personal cash collapse probably seems like the end. In other words, Jesus was saying that we shouldn't spend our time worrying about the problems of this life - not even the stock market crash, because worrying doesn't help.