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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The age 50+ people at my job are almost always tech illiterate. [/quote]

This makes zero sense. My 70yo mother was a first computer buyer. Stayed with every form of tech as it came. Learned every new feature along the way.

It’s an old idea that older people don’t know tech. You’re thinking about 70yos from 25 years ago.

I’m 40 and I know all of it too. 40, 50 were kids like the now iPad kids. I would say we know more bc we were in layers of computing that young people just expect to push an app feature and fix (that doesn’t work).

Gen z etc is more experimental with app features, I’ll give you that. Because they were like 13 and didn’t give a $*** if they published an awkward video at first. They got better.[/quote]

I'm also 40 and work on a computer daily. It's always the older people (but not all of them) bugging other people to help get their workstation going after some basic problem. And then once it's running, they are still slow working basic functionality of the job itself. [/quote]

It’s normal that younger people have more up-to-date skills, as they’ve just been at university, whether in IT or some other disciplines.  They’ve been studying all day at school and that’s their job to learn.  Older employees have more experience and typically more maturity to handle issues that come up and capacity to lead people.

Not true in every case obviously but some Labor market theory finds that younger employees are generally paid below the value they create for their company while older employees are paid above it.  It evens out over a lifetime.[/quote]

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