How do your arguments apply differently to any other profession? If no family means: > motivation/drive/desire to put in hours > low cost > flexibility > more

How do your arguments apply differently to any other profession? If no family means: > motivation/drive/desire to put in hours > low cost > flexibility > more likely to bond with other young employees, and participate in company culture (instead of having a family they need to spend time with). This will be truer for professions that require no expertise than for technical ones. The myth of young computer hackers comes from the fact that most developers were as young as the profession itself. So the typical software company was made of young people. As the profession gets older, this will disappear. For the last one: > creativity/fresh ideas I'm that guy that was the smart young developer that was innovating and getting new ideas (I started as a developer at 17, and I was helping people twice my age). Nowadays I'm still him, just I got 25 more years of professional and life experience. And I got a lot better at understanding problems (technical and human) and how to solve them. The same people that think when they are young that their ideas are "fresher" are the ones that complain about "nowadays young" when getting older. It is just lack of empathy and understanding. Trying to justify discrimination by age, gender, country of origin, etc. doesn't help anyone.