Creating wealth is building homes where there were none and selling them. People that did this or that improved the quality of a home and sold it, increased the strength of the economy.
People that sold an old house just trasfered wealth from one person to another. In most cases from the bank to the buyer and then to the seller.
The economy doesn’t grow when people sell things to each other and increase the price after each transaction.
The economy growths by building and creating things.
