alt Hacker NewsOf course they share responsibility. Pay scraps for slop, expect slop.
The more useful job of a politician may be similar to how managers in general have a "more useful" part of their jobs then publishing status report.
"Gathering information, making decisions, nudging others." Lobbying for their constituency (at best) or the people who paid for his campaign (at worse).
Or, heavens forbid, writing legislation on a topic that he knows something about, as opposed to whatever crap he had to slop about.
As I said, responsibility has to be shared. I would want neither the staff to be considered the sole problems, nor the polician career to be permanently halted because of this. (I know he's going to look stupid on the internet, and we'll all have a good laugh, but maybe he's also working on some serious stuff, and real people are going to pay real consequences because of what is, in the grand scheme of things, a minor blunder.
I'm more concerned about students not caring to learn to read because of AI.
> [post 1] "One of them is guilty, the other one is responsible"
> [post 2] "Of course they share responsibility."
I'm not following.
We're also still disregarding the fact that none of us can even prove that it was one of his staff that did this and not him, but your OP is worded like it's a given it was staff.
> The more useful job of a politician may be similar to how managers in general have a "more useful" part of their jobs then publishing status report. "Gathering information, making decisions, nudging others." Lobbying for their constituency (at best) or the people who paid for his campaign (at worse).
> Or, heavens forbid, writing legislation on a topic that he knows something about, as opposed to whatever crap he had to slop about.
Not sure about you, but I often find my job will oftentimes not always include the things I have the most experience in, and I'm expected to be able to rise to the occasion because I was hired to do so.
> As I said, responsibility has to be shared.
You said that? Because I read "one of them is guilty, the other one is responsible." If you mean that responsibility is synonymous here, why the distinction?
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Revisiting my original questions that have gone unanswered:
- Is procedure not his job as a politician?
Given that you appear to have instead answered "If not, what is his job / the more useful thing?", I'm assuming "No", to which I disagree. If your answer is that "yes, procedure is part of his job", then I assert he failed to do his job here, regardless of how boring you find that job to be personally.
If the guilty/responsible distinction still holds, I'm still unclear as to what applies to whom.