In the upper-class ideology of meritocracy, the CEO gets paid the really big bucks because he takes the risks, and he’s ultimately responsible for the performance of the company. The buck stops at the C-level. Seems to me that if the benefits flow to the top, so should the costs.
That doesn’t preclude punishing all of the ghouls, of course.
I don’t disagree, I’m just saying that blaming solely Thompson would otherwise excuse the others who are arguably more responsible for engineering this hellscape. The sort of responsibility you describe is figurative, at best. You could say he took one for the team, but I think the whole team needs to go, all the way down to the waterboy. Otherwise you just replace one shitty coach with another and have the same shit team making the same shit plays.
In the upper-class ideology of meritocracy, the CEO gets paid the really big bucks because he takes the risks, and he’s ultimately responsible for the performance of the company. The buck stops at the C-level. Seems to me that if the benefits flow to the top, so should the costs.
That doesn’t preclude punishing all of the ghouls, of course.
I don’t disagree, I’m just saying that blaming solely Thompson would otherwise excuse the others who are arguably more responsible for engineering this hellscape. The sort of responsibility you describe is figurative, at best. You could say he took one for the team, but I think the whole team needs to go, all the way down to the waterboy. Otherwise you just replace one shitty coach with another and have the same shit team making the same shit plays.