Older workers are supposed to pass along this knowledge to younger workers in an expedited fashion. Acquisition of the understanding of increasingly complex sys

Older workers are supposed to pass along this knowledge to younger workers in an expedited fashion. Acquisition of the understanding of increasingly complex systems must be optimized to operational needs. One of the many, many gripes Millennials have with Baby Boomers and Gen-Xers is that they jealously guard institutional knowledge in the name of job security, for years, and then just... retire. If you're lucky, your company will shell out massive consultation fees to have them come back and drip-feed what they know to younger personnel. It's not just the natural order of things that such knowledge passes out of this world. It's one of many collective and affirmative decisions by people born before 1980 to take as much with them as possible when they go. I would be skeptical if it were just one thing, but after affordable college, affordable housing, affordable healthcare, affordable retirement, and a viable biosphere, it's become a pattern. That you seem to understand this on some level and don't care to try to mke a difference is even worse.