Those companies still make money though. I think there are two levels to an organization 1. The level of "this is an arrangement of labor/capital in order to p

Those companies still make money though. I think there are two levels to an organization 1. The level of "this is an arrangement of labor/capital in order to produce money" and 2. This is an enterprise where thousands of people spend 1/3 of their time and takes up a huge mental space, so they arrange it in a way that affirms their internal sense of purpose Organizations, especially large corporations which have passed a few "too big to fail barriers" gradually become a "purpose factory" where their product partially becomes imbuing their higher level employees a sense of importance and justification for spending years there.