Because money has no value, if you don't give it one. If you make infinite money, it's worth 0. Same with the 100 companies - OpenAI and Anthropic are worth something, only if there's someone to buy the tokens. If any of them successfully proves that having a company is worthless, many companies fail, and then there's no one to buy the tokens.
Sorry, but claim that they can outcompete all human-managed companies but they deliberately do not do this seems to not pass a smell test to me.
We are discussing a paradoxon/contradiction here. That "this doesn't pass the smell test" is the point.
The mental gymnastics are astounding. These are companies trying to juice their numbers every quarter. They're threatening to replace labor. That argument has 0 internal consistency.