Yes but present wealth is destroyed when resources are deployed unproductively. This concept isn’t particularly subtle or arguable. If you have a lot of food a

Yes but present wealth is destroyed when resources are deployed unproductively. This concept isn’t particularly subtle or arguable. If you have a lot of food and you are wealthy and then you let it spoil you’re less wealthy. Nobody else got that wealth (assuming you don’t count the microbes) and absent another source of resources then you are also dead.