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This shouldn't be news. In the sense that it should be just as commonplace as a bunch of 70 year old men being in charge.

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If people spend their lives trying to get into positions of power and wealth, then why would it make sense that 34 year olds would be more likely to be running things than people with 40 years more experience, more connections, and more money?

It's almost a thermodynamic law, that snowball has been rolling longer and it's bigger.

Should it be the case? I don't know. There's an argument to be made for having a person from a new generation with new ideas, but there's also an argument to be made for experience and having seen similar situations in the past, having a larger frame of reference.

I remember going around floating the idea there aught to be an age limit for executive positions. Most peoples response was negative. Then I saw that Jimmy Carter said the same thing.

https://www.rollcall.com/news/video/jimmy-carter-hope-theres...

Discrimination on age is bad, just as it is bad when we do it based on skin colour or gender. Let's just hire people that are going to do well and stop worrying whether or not they have the right colour hair or they eat the right type of carrot the right amount of times each week.

I think it depends. If the world is changing fast enough, the experience may lead to wrong conclusions. A larger snowball may be difficult to change its course. It is all relative. Actually in a modern society, the head of government shouldn't matter at all. He/she would be a accommodator not a decision maker.

Agreed 100%. However, the previous all-male panel of government party leaders was also thankfully noted in the media.

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