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I'm not sure which meme is more offensive. That old people can't learn or that old people don't want to learn. The real problem is that for many old people it'
by pluma 10y ago
I'm not sure which meme is more offensive. That old people can't learn or that old people don't want to learn.
The real problem is that for many old people it's certain they'll never be able to get back to the status (financial, social and professional) they have now if they have to start all over again. As long as there is any promise of them being able to keep doing what they have experience in, that's what they'll aim for.
- micaksica 10y agoI speak from anecdote here from my time traveling around middle America, not from an armchair, but I agree that the statement was probably a little too broad. > As long as there is any promise of them being able to keep doing what they have experience in, that's what they'll aim for. That's the real education that needs to happen. That job is gone and they're not going to get there. It's gone because the world has changed, the economy has changed. Holding out hope is holding that person back. I had to learn this early in my life, and now I live in two different countries depending on where I'm finding work.
- pluma 10y agoThe biggest tragedy in all this is that technological advance harms those it help the most by eliminating unnecessary work. For humankind it is progress, for individual humans it is ruin.