When you fire your staff, you lay often lay waste your IP, opines Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor.

Without this knowledge and talent, Twitter is a shell – an office building, some patents and a brand – without the capacity to improve or even sustain its service.

[Elon Musk went on a firing frenzy at Twitter. Now he’s paying for it](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/21/elon-musk-went-on-a-firing-frenzy-at-twitter-now-hes-paying-for-it)