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by ajcodez 2564 days ago
You made my point better than I did. “Not everyone can reach the top.” Young people have had fewer opportunities to reach the top. Not being at the top is a negative signal that gets stronger every year.
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There’s no room for those young people, so the chance one will be 100x, whatever you mean by that, is effectively 0. Young people are malleable and cheap. The majority of workers are never more than commodity labor. As the saying goes anyone can be replaced. That being the case cheaper and easier to exploit is what’s being optimized for. But they’ll let you think you got a shot at 100x, it’s how the scam work kiddo.
ONLY a kiddo would say something like

> If you hire a young person they might be 100x or 10x or 1x in a couple years.

100x?

Not being at the top is simply a scaling problem, not an opportunity problem.