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If older employees are so awesome compared to young workers, why does this bias/discrimination continue to exist?

Wouldn't a shop that rids itself of the stupidity of age based discrimination rise above its competitors as it's able to seize on a talent pool that would otherwise be ignored?

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My guess is that the market for high quality software engineering simply isn't there at scale. A lot of what we use day to day really just scrapes by the threshold of passable. So that's the bar they need to clear. If your customers are content paying you for 80% reliability, why pay for engineers who can deliver 5 9s?

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