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Very generally speaking: Older people acquire life experience and wisdom, which lets them make better decisions; but their decisions are typically conservative

by twh270 4y ago

Very generally speaking: Older people acquire life experience and wisdom, which lets them make better decisions; but their decisions are typically conservative as they are invested in "the way things are today". (It's worked fine this way for 50 years, why change now?) Younger people have fresh ideas and less investment in "the way things are today", but lack the maturity to make wise decisions. (This is hot garbage, we need to completely throw it away and start from scratch.) See also, we already have laws regarding age of candidacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_candidacy_laws_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_candidacy_laws_in_the_U...

cycomanic 4y ago
> Very generally speaking: > Older people acquire life experience and wisdom, which lets them make better decisions; but their decisions are typically conservative as they are invested in "the way things are today". (It's worked fine this way for 50 years, why change now?) I'd like to see some actual statistics on this. It has certainly been the case that many of the companies that resulted in big economic changes were made by <30 year olds in the last decades. So there's at least a counterpoint that older people make better economic decisions. > Younger people have fresh ideas and less investment in "the way things are today", but lack the maturity to make wise decisions. (This is hot garbage, we need to completely throw it away and start from scratch.) > See also, we already have laws regarding age of candidacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_candidacy_laws_in_the_U https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_candidacy_laws_in_the_U... I'm aware of it, and I was directly alluding to these, moreover I think it's outrageous that > 80 year olds can still hold office (some of them with quite obvious dementia). I think there is very strong scientific evidence that beyond 80 years your mental capabilities significantly declines. So if it is about good decision making, why are these people allowed to continue?

by twh270 4y ago

cycomanic 4y ago

> Very generally speaking: > Older people acquire life experience and wisdom, which lets them make better decisions; but their decisions are typically conservative as they are invested in "the way things are today". (It's worked fine this way for 50 years, why change now?) I'd like to see some actual statistics on this. It has certainly been the case that many of the companies that resulted in big economic changes were made by <30 year olds in the last decades. So there's at least a counterpoint that older people make better economic decisions. > Younger people have fresh ideas and less investment in "the way things are today", but lack the maturity to make wise decisions. (This is hot garbage, we need to completely throw it away and start from scratch.) > See also, we already have laws regarding age of candidacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_candidacy_laws_in_the_U https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_candidacy_laws_in_the_U... I'm aware of it, and I was directly alluding to these, moreover I think it's outrageous that > 80 year olds can still hold office (some of them with quite obvious dementia). I think there is very strong scientific evidence that beyond 80 years your mental capabilities significantly declines. So if it is about good decision making, why are these people allowed to continue?