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Do you really believe that they should be responsible for your success or failure?
Well ultimately each individual is responsible for his or her own success or failure .....

Having said that, I would still answer the question you pose above in the affirmative - yes they are responsible ... at least the good ones are.

There is no reason why the carrier can't be willing to be responsible for the success of their o/o's.

There are limits to this obviously - that responsibility only extends to what the carrier is willing and able to control.

And the fact that they are willing to be responsible to some degree doesn't relieve the individual of his or her responsibility in the least (the idea here isn't to come up with another party to BLAME) ....... one would do certainly do best to plan for nobody else other than one's self being responsible for one's own condition ..... but when a little outside help comes along a better situation is likely for all involved. Survivial isn't solely an individual activity.

To operate in any less than the manner above (being willing to be responsible for others to some extent) leads only to a dog-eat-dog, I'm-only-out-for-myself-kinda-world ...... not exactly a place where I care to live.