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Flat White

Of age and stage: over 50s excluded from workforce

17 July 2022

7:00 AM

17 July 2022

7:00 AM

I find it ironic that everyone wants to live a long life but nobody wants to get old. Even fewer value old age as a testament to experience.

We value experience when we employ someone to do a job, but we do not value experience in being alive, in the human condition, or decades of experience in living.

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