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This is how every enterprise works.

The CEO gives the talk about the awesome product because they set the roadmap.

Benefits flow uphill, blame flows downhill is literally how any hierarchical organization works.

Now, you might want to say that science shouldn't be hierarchical, but we don't have any flat organizations like this that involve the kinds of mentoring and training required to build new scientists.

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Not in every hierarchical organization.

For example, a ship’s captain takes ultimate responsibility for any collision or sinking, whether or not they were actually steering the ship. There was a tradition of the captain being the last one to leave a sinking ship.

Many cultures had a tradition of executing commanders that suffered defeat.

I think our culture is an anomaly where blame does not flow uphill as well.