But that system is made of employees. It's not the office building or the computers. It's not the copy machine or the coffee maker. It's other workers.
If all I needed to do was make the same capital investments as facebook to get the same returns wouldn't that be wonderful?
It’s more than just employees. It’s also existing capital, both physical and in form of intellectual property (e.g. the codebases and their real world deployments), and the organization of labor inside the company. If you take 10 000 random software engineers and put them in one huge office without any business structure imposed on them, you aren’t going to see billions of dollars in revenue any time soon.
If all I needed to do was make the same capital investments as facebook to get the same returns wouldn't that be wonderful?