Real value can be destroyed. Dollars can be printed, planes can crash. Crops can grow, or rot. The effort of humans can be deployed wastefuliy, like making snow

Real value can be destroyed. Dollars can be printed, planes can crash. Crops can grow, or rot. The effort of humans can be deployed wastefuliy, like making snowmen, or not, like planting crops and building shelter. Wealth represents an assessment of the value to humans of existing resources and it can go up and down based on the decisions of how to allocate that wealth. There’s absolutely no controversy whatsoever about this concept despite your desire to not acknowledge it.