Money is not really a scarce resource though - we can always print more of it. A million dollars spent on an artwork doesn't mean there are a million fewer $1 tins of beans made. That's not how the economy works.
Unless they store most of it in a bank somewhere and don’t use it, it has effects on the real economy.
My point was, the economy is not a zero-sum game.
Like any force carrier, they are fungible, and they are constantly being created and annihilated. Banks emit and absorb them strongly, other organizations less so.