Ageism. This has been worse than “racism.”
Fully qualified, superior older workers pushed out by Ford and many many others to make room for younger little twerps who have confidence without competence. Then industry fails.
And the young ones don’t feel motivated to go to shopping malls or to buy things at local retail. They are used to gazing at a screen for 21 hours a day and buying there. Now they often don’t even buy cars or houses. So the economy and nation we built is being killed by the young ones. The Eloi. (H.G. Wells The Time Machine).
As a dude mentioned, why do we have octavenerian politicians but an old dude who is fully qualified must be let go.
Instead of hoping for illegals and millenial leeches to pay off social security, let the old men do it and in charge.
If anything is going to kill the conservative movement, it’s gotta be this “get off my lawn” attitude towards the next generation. Like it or not, that generation is the future. We have to help them to live a better life, not sneer and push them away. Some of my friends work for start ups as engineers and benefit immensely from older experienced mentor figures.
If older people treat the younger generation as enemies, why on earth would so called Millenials want to follow their advice and way of living?
“And the young ones don’t feel motivated to go to shopping malls or to buy things at local retail.”
I don’t know where you live, but here in Texas the malls are basically gang hangouts, thanks to some Democrat-appointed judges who won’t allow mall owners to get rid of the trash.