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Resources are finite but currency is not. Currency/money that most people race for is printed and can be printed infinitely.
Yes but money is not equivalent to wealth in the literal sense. If it were, we could just print a billion dollars for every person on earth and then everybody could live happily ever after, lounging at a beach resort in the Caribbean sipping a fruity drink out of a coconut shell. We all know that's not true.
Wealth is the collection of all material goods/resources humans possess from which humans can derive benefit. So, food, motorcycles, mouse traps, crude oil, hair scrunchies, CPUs, hypodermic needles, wedding dresses, shovels, books, skyscrapers, dildos, etc. Money is an agreed-upon representation of ownership of a certain amount of that collection of goods.
Printing money doesn't increase wealth because it doesn't increase this collection of goods.