Zuckerberg saying "Young people are just smarter" seems like an instance of https://antidem.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/glantons-law/ https://antidem.wordpress.com

Zuckerberg saying "Young people are just smarter" seems like an instance of https://antidem.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/glantons-law/ https://antidem.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/glantons-law/ Age discrimination exists because most of us have direct experience with family members who diminish as they age, especially when these family members didn't keep up a habit of doing intellectual intense things they did when they were younger and instead spend increasing amounts of time watching sports and doing crosswords. It's possible to be a badass programmer in your 80s, Knuth will be one soon, but it's very rare. We thus shouldn't expect to have an equal distribution of old people and young people, regardless of whether that's desirable or not.