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There's a post right here in this thread that says (only barely paraphrased) "That’s not ageism, younger people really are better".
by jpindar 7y ago
There's a post right here in this thread that says (only barely paraphrased) "That’s not ageism, younger people really are better".
- dlphn___xyz 7y agoif you cant up-skill then tech isnt a good field for you regardless of age
- lambdasquirrel 7y agoI don’t know why this got downvoted. This is a legitimate concern. You can up-skill for sure. But whether you can be recognized for it, versus treated as the outsider, is another thing. You can have all that skill but it confers no leverage. As Walter Bright pointed out, skill doesn’t mean anything if there’s an industry-wide groupthink biased against age/experience.
- dang 7y agoWhat post is that?
- jpindar 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20252697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20252697 ('Better' meaning better from the point of view of an employer).
- dang 7y agoMy guess is that you misread it. To my ear it sounds like an instance of the "young people are easier to exploit" genre, which is one of the most common responses people have on this topic, and definitely not a defense of ageism.