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Money is like ATP. 'wealth creation' is creating a process that takes in radicals like oxygen and transforms energy from a useless or dangerous form into a tokenized usable form.

Actual physical/digital money doesn't actually provide energy unless it also has an output. E.g. If there's nothing you want to buy, then it isn't actually useful as an energy source.

It can either manifest as mindless consumerism or building a great company/non-profit/going-to-mars. The point is "having something to do."

If you don't have anything to do, the universe/society/whatever won't give you that much chaos/oxygen/fuel b/c you'll just self-destruct like a lottery winner.

The stock market is an interesting invention b/c it gives everyone "something to do" with excess resources. It "completes the circuit" creating a 'virtuous' cycle where money always has value because it always has future potential.

Though it can also be interpreted as giving money an infinite shelf life by embalming it. Value is "preserved" by transforming it into a different form so that it can be extracted with the same potency at a future date. Either keeping up with or even surpassing inflation.

Like real food with real preservatives there's something that feels "off" about this even though technically it may be perfectly safe and has many practical uses.