They are a consequence of design.
Neither city populations nor company revenues are designed.
They are a consequence of design.
No they're not. They're not designed. Nobody, except in Communist countries, sits down with a plan and marks out how big cities or companies will be.
If you're arguing that the pattern is a side-effect of systems that are designed, then even there I think you're wrong. The pattern may be a side-effect of systems of interconnected parts, yes, but that still begs the question of whether biological systems were designed or not.