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>I never really thought wealth and power were blessings. Always thought that was more of a curse than anything.

If you are righteous, then wealth and power are blessings because you use them wisely to spread good. They are merely the means to a greater end. But if you are evil, you become enslaved to the insatiable desire for more wealth and power for its own sake. Like a drug addict, you end up committing greater and greater evil acts to try to get more and more, sowing the seeds of your own inevitable destruction by God's natural law.