Money can be thought of as a claim check on labor. You work doing something valuable and get money. You spend some and save some. What you have saved/invested and not spent and passed on to someone else still has value.

In the snowboarder's case, someone worked for that money and gifted it to them. Totally consistent if you don't overly focus on the "YOU have to work for it" but rather "SOMEONE has to work for it"