While I don't agree that it's impossible to assign concrete value, any value suffers from network effects. Gaps in people's skillsets can be made up with someon

While I don't agree that it's impossible to assign concrete value, any value suffers from network effects. Gaps in people's skillsets can be made up with someone strong in a gap and another person for another gap and now you have 2 less productive people individually, but they make the group better overall. When you replace 1 guy with 19 (as per another thread), the management is easier as there is less need for focus and more flexibility in hiring/firing, which is worth a lot.