Yup. That is me, I am two years old.
Wealth is created, and most of the people that pay for the creation reap the benefit. Maybe they paid more than they would have, but they reaped the benefits of the enactment of a social policy.
Maybe, if the world was different in the past, things would have been different and they would have created more wealth. Maybe they would have created the same wealth and it would have cost less. Then again, maybe not...
The "maybe not" has been sorted out by folks like Mises, Hayek, Rothbard, etc. They've determined and demonstrated that your foregoing options must be correct.
Sorry for blowing my stack. I tend to lose my mind after I've repeated something a given number of times. It's going to make adopting kids very interesting.