Elon Musk went on a firing frenzy at Twitter. Now he’s paying for it | Robert Reich

Where employees are a corporation's key assets, workers' greater power comes in threatening to walk out the door

When Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44bn, he clearly didn't know that the key assets he was buying lay in Twitter's 7,500 workers' heads.

On corporate balance sheets, the assets of a corporation are its factories, equipment, patents and brand name.