You earn millions of dollars for essentially keeping the trains running on time by instructing your minions to keep the trains on time, and then the market says

You earn millions of dollars for essentially keeping the trains running on time by instructing your minions to keep the trains on time, and then the market says we need new tracks and new trains and everyone's getting off your trains. You'd be grumpy too, when the minions look at you and ask for a spec and a strategy and you realize your going to have to do work for the first time ever. Consider MSFT, not the biggest fan but, they make stuff and can change and improve your life with it. They have a revenue of ~200bn, Meta is ~80bn, but what do they actually make? It's not a totally worthless company but it's been trading on the fact it got to be the first decent social graph company for the last two decades.