Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for April 20, 2016
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Transcript:
You know what this company's greatest asset is? It's people! People like Sandy, our statistical finance expert. She... Correction: our best assets are a portfolio of East Asian stocks and a factory in southern Mongolia. Wow, actually our people don't even show up to help page two. Oh. Those are just robots with people-names. Well, hey, how about a round of applause for Manu!
For most older manufacturing companies, the greatest asset is information in the form of drawings for replacement parts and customer sales data. People can be replaced, for sure. Brick and mortar facilities can be closed down in one place, be acquired in another. A crafty person high in management could download valuable information in a few days. So much depends on business ethics; and social ethics if those still exist in business.