They have to live with it and feel like shit and still run THEIR business. You make a mistake, you don't fire yourself and give up everything you work for, you do the best you can and move on. Don't like how they operate? Build your own business and hire thousands of people and then when you make a mistake fire yourself instead.

Why is taking responsibility the same as taking a punishment in your eyes?

because responsibility without consequences is pointless?

Perhaps if you’re raising a child.

> "they take responsibility" what does that even mean? It's meaningless.

It means they're not blaming anyone else for this. The opposite of taking responsibility is assigning blame. They aren't assigning blame, they're taking responsibility.