Capital is wealth… sorta. Capital is things you use in manufacturing. (those aren't the correct words) Wealth is… there is no real definition of wealth.

Wealth and capital exists outside of manufacturing. There is actually more wealth to be made in distribution and resale in the U.S. than manufacturing. Whether something is wealth or not really depends on your intentions. If I have a dozen boxes of ice cream sandwiches and plan to eat them they aren't wealth. If I have a dozen boxes of ice cream sandwiches and plan to sell them individually I have wealth. Whether I made them myself is irrelevant.

And this time of using money to make more money is very strange. And only exists because of "corporations", things you can buy and sell that represent companies that actually make things. (and enhanced by money printing)

And here I'd say some of the things we call wealth today like intellectual property such as patents, trade marks, and copy rights, monopolies like freehold titles over sections of the earth and the legal fictions we call corporations that act as owners of these things fall into the category of legal privileges and monopolies that the state created. The fiat money that the fed lends into existence to the banks at the lowest rates would fall into this category too. The fact that wall street banksters get new money first at the lowest prices is part of how that system is designed to work.