> Maybe young people are just hired at an absurd rate, which is suppressing the proportions of old people. Honestly, I think this accounts for most of the agei

> Maybe young people are just hired at an absurd rate, which is suppressing the proportions of old people. Honestly, I think this accounts for most of the ageism in tech. Way more people are entering the field now than in the 1970s, so even if there's absolutely no ageism at play you'd still expect the majority of all developers at a company to have graduated in the last decade.