American systems are designed to connect decisions to decision-makers through consequences. If you make good decisions, you should benefit.
If you make poor decisions, you should bear the costs. This accountability shapes how Americans evaluate performance and assign responsibility. They construct systems to track who decided what and to ensure that outcomes flow back to the choosers.
Expect Americans to ask who made a decision when things go wrong—and to credit the right people when things go well. This accountability serves as both incentive and evaluation mechanism. It also makes decisions morally significant: choosing carries weight because consequences follow. Americans resist arrangements where some benefit from decisions they did not make while others suffer from decisions not their own.
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