This issue is intimately bound up with the workaholic culture issue. Older people often have families and lives and aren't interested in 80 hour work weeks, and

This issue is intimately bound up with the workaholic culture issue. Older people often have families and lives and aren't interested in 80 hour work weeks, and they've also kind of wised up to the fact that someone demanding an 80 hour work week with the promise of (unspecified) riches is just using you. SV's 80 hour work week culture is about exploiting naive young people and burning them out. If we can do something about that, then some companies might realize that someone who's been coding for 35 years actually might know more than someone who's been coding for 5.