I spend it on plane tickets, I consume/destroy the wealth.
Only the money you give away (including via taxes) is
wealth created-and-not-consumed.
So if I buy a bottle of wine to have with dinner, and my wife and I drink it with dinner, I have destroyed wealth, and am a mooch. If I give the wine-money to a bum who then uses it to buy a bottle of Mad Dog and drinks himself into a stupor, I have created wealth, and am a benefactor to mankind.
Mad Dog for all bums now!