[JonnLeejsp]

It's not the country's wealth... it's the wealth of the person who created it.

If you spend all afternoon baking cookies, you'll end the day with most of the cookies in your neighborhood. Why is that fair?

I think he may have a zero-sum idea of how the economy works. As your example illustrates, wealth can be produced by making stuff and exerting energy. Making a bunch of cookies doesn't take cookies away from anyone else.