Is Ecclesiastes 2:24 advice for Christians or non-Christians
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God put Adam and Eve into the garden to work it and to enjoy the fruits of their labor and their relationship with each other and with God. Same thing Ecclesiastes is telling us to do. When we create a religion of self denial in service to Christ that denies these fundamental gifts from the hand of God then truly we have become the atheists.
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The advice is not to "eat, drink, work hard and be merry". The advice is more similar to Jesus' "See the lilies,...". In this chapter, Ecclesiastes says (attention, context coming ;-) ):
It is vain to work hard and amass earthly riches, they won't go with you. It is even more vain that you work hard and don't even enjoy the outcome.
Instead, we should enjoy the things God has given us.
I don't think that's bad advice, so long as you don't interpret it to mean "eat, drink, work hard, and be merry".
Ecclesiastes 2:26
26 For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
=> The good man gets everything from God, the sinner works for vain goals
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