No. Turning a beef-patty, a bun, and an onion into a hamburger creates a valuable good that wasn't there before. Throwing beef, a bun, and an onion into a pit

No. Turning a beef-patty, a bun, and an onion into a hamburger creates a valuable good that wasn't there before. Throwing beef, a bun, and an onion into a pit doesn't. However, as an economy gets more and more abstract, it can become harder and harder to identify the value that a given job produces.