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isn't there an elephant in the room here? specifically, ageism. whilst it's fantastic to give opportunities to the youth, promoting people on the basis of youth

isn't there an elephant in the room here? specifically, ageism. whilst it's fantastic to give opportunities to the youth, promoting people on the basis of youth whilst "resuffling" other employees just because they were born before the 70's doesn't seem like wise corporate policy. if a guy who is born in the 50's is still a fresh thinker and performs well, why hold his age against him? china has an ageing population and with corporate policies/attitude like this, things will take a turn for the worse. i'm shock that so many people applaud jack ma for his blatant ageism

whybroke 11y ago
And more broadly than just Alibaba or China, 14 of the 15 posts to this thread so far say the policy is wonderful. Indeed, there is praise that the company is massively invested in talent development. But not apparently enough to bring the guy born in 1969 who's skill apparently evaporated, up to the skill level of someone born in 1971 who is still apparently a maestro (for one more birthday anyway)