Your original interlocutor argued that > Unless everyone can spend money drawn from the corporate account, and everyone can fire anyone else, the structure isn

Your original interlocutor argued that > Unless everyone can spend money drawn from the corporate account, and everyone can fire anyone else, the structure isn't flat. which I don't think you ever really addressed. That there is more than these powers doesn't change that these powers are basically what defines meaningful hierarchy. They are necessary, but not sufficient; other functions are contributory, but neither necessary nor sufficient in themselves. You can't have a company without money and people. That's literally what a company is.