It seems like several comments are reacting to the headline and not the content of the article. The article does not assert that old people are definitely profe

It seems like several comments are reacting to the headline and not the content of the article. The article does not assert that old people are definitely professionally useless, it does not assert that your career is the most important thing in your life, and it's not telling old workers to pack it up and downshift into a soft life. It's not rigorously backed up by robust longitudinal studies either. Fine, a lot of interesting ideas aren't. But the idea of preparing for a graceful change into a different future self -- maybe not weaker, but definitely not "the same but more", which is how I think we usually imagine a different future self -- seems under-explored to me in modern media. So I like this piece for trying to talk through it a bit.