[mattgreenrocks]

There is another way: become a member of the Guild of technologists, and break away from the commoditized pop culture of programming.

In short, work somewhere where your ideas and skills matter more than LoC generated per day. There's tons of devs who are younger/faster/hungrier than you who will work for less. Actually, this whole system depresses wages for development as a whole and you should be pissed about that.

Ageism is unique in that it's a game you're guaranteed to lose eventually.