Comment by JumpCrisscross

> * If you spend $400M and build an asset that is worth >$400M, then you have increased the value of the company without modifying profit. For example, if a company were to buy land, and build a building, that building has a value regardless of if it is associated with any revenue*

Why does it have value? It’s because it can be rented, occupied for productive use or sold to someone who can do either of those. Revenue-free assets are essentially money. (Companies aren’t in the business of non-revenue non-monetary assets—that’s the domain of society at large.)