Not to discredit Altucher, but I'd be willing to bet the fact the title starts with "10 reasons..." helped to some degree.
Incidentally, I find hard to take seriously an article that enumerates things these days; too many blogs are doing this for the sake of getting page views (which works, but the resulting quality is often questionable, I'm looking at you Business Insider and Mashable)
Incidentally, I find hard to take seriously an article that enumerates things these days; too many blogs are doing this for the sake of getting page views (which works, but the resulting quality is often questionable, I'm looking at you Business Insider and Mashable)