The "personal responsibility" narrative has seeped far to far into American life to be tolerable. Back then, we had industrial operations that were running 24 h

The "personal responsibility" narrative has seeped far to far into American life to be tolerable. Back then, we had industrial operations that were running 24 hours/day, things like factory assembly lines, steelmaking, the electric and gas utilities, and they had on-call rotas. But then we also had proper engineering practices, none of this "take ownership" crap, which reduced incidents, and we had unions that were in a position to push back on employer demands. Instead we have self-indulgent junk like that. Wonder what my uncle would say, he was chief engineer for the gas company back in the day.