This is perhaps too far afield, but I think blame really is a zero-sum game, in that people work actively to shift it around, and only stop playing when allocations become set. It strikes me as a very primate thing.<p>I think we can only get people into non-zero-sum behavior when we talk about things like, cause, power, and responsibility.<p>For example, I&#x27;d accept no blame here. But I do feel responsibility in a couple ways. As a participant in the Silicon Valley ecosystem, this event will effect me. Even if I didn&#x27;t make the mess, I&#x27;m going to have to help clean it up. And looking back, I think about the power I might have had to cause a different outcome. What if I had spoken up more against the hype cycle? What if I had said more clearly that this was a bubble? I&#x27;m only one person, but there were a lot of people who could have spoken up more. If we had done it together, could we have reduced the damage of the bubble? Hard to say, but next time I&#x27;ll try harder and see what happens.<p>If this sort of thing interests you, you might enjoy Dekker&#x27;s &quot;Field Guide to Understanding Human Error,&quot; which is a brilliant book about airplane safety investigations. I thought it had a lot of applicability in tech.