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The original reason for companies is really simple to derive. People engage in mutual trade in order to improve their life. Guy A has two cows and no chickens, guy B has no cows but four chickens, they trade and now they both have a cow + two chickens, or whatever. Or you exchange labor, you'll mow their lawn (something they hate to do) and they'll do your dishes (something you hate to do). Or anything else like that. You trade for your own benefit and both sides (in free trade without coercion) gain overall utility.
There is no greater overall thought to your choice to trade a surplus pencil for a desired pen. You just would prefer the pen over a pencil and they prefer a pencil over the pen.
But uh oh, some tasks or goods that people want for trade are complex and require the coordination and labor of multiple people in order to provide. But the benefits of this trade will be so good that it's worth it, so someone who is smart and enterprising makes a group to do that and make/do something in order to trade it for their own profit.
There you go, that's the purpose of a company. It is to enrich the owner through engaging in trade just like everyone else engaging in trade is doing.
The pencil company doesn't make pencils "for the jobs" (in fact they want low labor costs) or for "the greater good", they do it to sell the pencils and make money. And people buy the pencils not for the jobs it creates, or for the greater good, but because they want a pencil.
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