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Do CIOs Discriminate Against Older Workers?
Brave new world? Advertisers I am 60+. I have been in and around computers since 1967. I have done training, sales, development., marketing, business development, project management. I love to work. My keyboard is permanently grafted to my hand. I do know and understand what XML is, and its potential. I have helped to drive the creation of web applications, e-commerce applications, digital signature applications. I understand a lot about some aspects of modern computing that leaves many of our younger friends befuddled. I may have been the subject of age discrimination, although I cannot prove that. But I have a different take on this whole subject  namely that discrimination is as old as history. And history proves that discriminators eventually lose out, and become discriminated against. (Try nazism, apartheid, Â
) They each had their reasons for Âclassifying people based on qualities absolutely not in the control of the person classified (demographics, race, etc.), and then finding reason to prefer one class over another. Age is simply a newer version of that same old bigoted way of trying include one group at the expense of another group. Today, I think that the basis for age discrimination is the almighty $$ (cheaper, not younger, is better). And valuing it above people will damage our ÂIT society as surely as those other practices brought their societies to their knees. | |
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