@freemo @gioypi As well, of course you took your wealth from someone else when you dug it up. You took it from the environment, from other organisms, etc. It simply wasn’t known or tallied wealth before that, and arguably is only “free” to take because humans really only recognize property ownership as something attributable to other humans, at best.
The Earth is essentially a closed system, more-or-less, so there is no new wealth being created, only unfinished accounting being updated.
In the purest sense, one could perhaps argue that knowledge creation is perhaps the purest form of “wealth creation”, as the efficiency gains and reworking of existing wealth in ever-more-valuable forms is perhaps one of the most powerful ways to take low-value resources and convert them into higher-value resources.