Tech workers worry about age discrimination at age 40: Study

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Re: Tech workers worry about age discrimination at age 40: Study

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Post by rhizome » Thu, Oct 26, 2017, 12:08 AM UTC

dogruck wrote: post #152

Clubber wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would argue based on their contribution to the bottom line, all tech workers, regardless of age, are significantly underpaid.

I would argue that cannot be true. If it were true, new companies would emerge that paid good employees more -- closer to their fair value. (Also, most companies pay employees more than fair value, to discourage them from shirking.)

If it were true, new companies would emerge that paid good employees more -- closer to their fair value.

These companies are emerging, though, right? 37Signals? I'm sure there are other small well-paid companies, if only from the evidence of a job ad I once saw. Now, "Compensation: Competitive" and "Compensation: Market" have been batted around for years, even around here, but this ad was for a programmer at a financial technology company and in the space for "Compensation" they put "Extremely high." Then again, those places are probably actually using the Big-O concepts they ask about in interviews.

You never see anything like that in Internet companies.

Re: Tech workers worry about age discrimination at age 40: Study

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Post by christocracy » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 7:46 PM UTC

sk5t wrote: post #218

christocracy wrote: post #96

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I’m 45. I was downloading games from BBSes with my C=64 in 1986; connecting to BBSes with long-distance calls. Yes, we grokked the internet immediately and, as a group, developed it while you were watching cartoons and playing on your XBox.

At 45 you are solidly Generation X, not a Boomer. BBSes were an awesome experience--modem AT commands, the excitement of getting an account on an exclusive system, chatting with the sysop, pondering the advantages of zmodem vs. BiModem... I'd consider growing up with BBSes and the languages of the day a much better primer than growing up with touchscreens and walled gardens.

I was targeting the “or” in the parent statement:

>or anti-people-who-didn't-grow-up-with-Internet

I wanted to point out there was this small generation of us (X) who “didn’t grow up with the internet” yet were instrumental in building it up.

I’m with you on the advantages growing up with 8-bit computing in the 80s. We’re a unique generation with a foot in both worlds.

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