LinkedIn Is Ageist

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I'm 45.

I just noticed that on LinkedIn, when updating my user profile that the education section defaults to years 2019 - 2023.

Sure, I could have graduated within these years, but I didn't, and neither did most 45 year olds, and sure, one could say, "that's just the default," but let's get real, I believe this date range is prioritized.

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Sorry, but it is not just LinkedIn, society as a whole became ageist.

One example is retirement: you are supposed to work and save enough money until something from 60 to 70 years old, depending on your country, but if you lose your job after 40 (and you will, not because you are a bad employee, but because they will hire someone younger than you to pay less than pay to you), you won't find another job to earn enough to live and save for retirement.

Yeah the agesism is serving the hiring companies that would rather sacrifice quality than cash flow. The issue with retirement goes deeper than the layoffs for the same reason but also is exacerbated by the high cost of living. At the end of the day it's not supply and demand that drives pos-capitalist economies, but pushing in margins to optimize profits while running companies on the brink of collapse. Logan's Run does start to look more like speculative fiction these days...

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