I was thinking the same thing while watching google paris thing... how come nobody got axed for that screw up? I thought the primary reason execs get paid so m

I was thinking the same thing while watching google paris thing... how come nobody got axed for that screw up? I thought the primary reason execs get paid so much more is because they're the last line of responsibility, it doesn't matter why the screw up happened, they get punished for it.