> but the idea that you expressed here seems to be that younger people are better at their jobs - which is very wrong That is not the idea I took from the GP's

> but the idea that you expressed here seems to be that younger people are better at their jobs - which is very wrong That is not the idea I took from the GP's comment about government workers being younger. Younger people have a different perspective to older people. That might lead to a better direction. If you think about progress/improvement as a vector, there's speed and direction. Young and old people might have the same speed but different directions, and younger people might have a direction which is more beneficial long term.