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Where does new wealth come from?

I've been reading "The Commanding Heights" by Daniel Yergin and  Joseph Stanislaw which is really my attempt at learning anything about anything in economics. Anyway, while I was reading it and considering the keynesian vs hayek arguments and the author said something about how to have to generate wealth before you can share it around, or something like that. Hearing that I realized that I don't actually know where wealth comes from. How does a society create new wealth out of nothing? I've always thought of an economy as something that trades around wealth, but obviously new wealth is integrated all the time. I guess I'm heaving trouble divorcing the idea of wealth as something separate than money. Could someone help clear this up for me?
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Human labor.

People make stuff and provide services. That's wealth.

Imagine two guys on an island who happen to have one $100 bill, call them Amos and Bill. Amos, who started with the $100 bill pays Bill to build him a shelter. Bill builds a shelter for himself too and pays Amos to build a bed. Amos builds his own bed and pays Bill to build a fireplace.

And so on and on. They trade the $100 back and forth, each paying the other for something and making things themselves as well. In the end there is only ever $100 of money in anyone's hands, but there is much more than $100 worth of wealth created.