Which is very much what's gone on in the world of biology. All living organisms, with very rare exceptions, run that same system. Oh, but it's much more complicated than that. The power that Microsoft represents goes far beyond what we can ever imagine. Most of the hard stuff is already in place.
Money is cross-platform information, in a very powerful, fluid form.
And a small percentage of it filters back to Redmond. It's like an ant hill or a termite nest. The ants collect crumbs, but the crumbs add up. You can take the view that it's dark and sinister, or you can say it's the coming of Utopia or whatever. I don't really advocate either position, I just think it needs to be treated as much more serious than the business of an oil monopoly or something like that.