Age discrimination effects almost everyone eventually, but for lowIQcels, it impacts us at a much younger age.
LowIQcels are only capable of working jobs that are highly repetitive, have little responsibility, few variables, and thus have a very low skill ceiling. This means having more experience beyond a certain point gives you zero advantage over other applicants. There's nothing someone with 10 years of experience in fast food is capable of that someone with only 1 year of experience isn't. Contrast this to a high IQ field like programming or engineering where the average person with 10 years of experience would generally have higher capability over someone with only 1 year of experience.
Anyway, this means, when it comes to the jobs that lowIQcels would qualify for, there is absolutely zero incentive for employers to hire applicants over 35, or even 30, over applicants in their late teens or early 20s.
But they have several major incentives NOT to hire older people. For one, older people are slower and have less energy. The decline starts at a much younger age than some people think, but employers know this. And obviously a 20 year old is going to have more energy and be quicker than a 40 year old.
But more importantly, older employees generally have higher healthcare utilization rates, which leads to increased costs for the company's healthcare plan. Corporations are freakishly meticulous, calculating, and hyper-optimize everything, so obviously they know all of this.
Now if you're autistic or just don't know how the world works you might say "UM, ACKSHUALLE AGE DISCRIMINATION IS ILLEGAL, THEY CAN'T DO THAT!". And while it's true it's technically against the law on paper, it's one of those things that's pretty much impossible to prove in court. Employers would never be stupid enough to say they don't hire people over a certain age, or tell an applicant their age was a factor in why they didn't hire them. In fact, employers never tell applicants why they don't hire them. At most they will send you a generic e-mail that says "thank you for your interest in the position position of SLAVE at [SUBSIDIARY OF TRANSNATIONAL MULTIBILLION DOLLAR MEGACORP] but at this time we have begun considering other candidates blah blah blah".
I've been working at the same place for years and I've gotten really burnt out on fast food, and dealing with one of the managers who I know is going to be a lifer, so for the past year (at least) I've been applying for every job I'm qualified for and I've had no luck. There is zero doubt in my mind that my age has played a role in my lack of success and I'm not optimistic for the future. So it looks like I'm going to have to continue to cling to my burger flipping job for dear life for the foreseeable future.
LowIQcels are only capable of working jobs that are highly repetitive, have little responsibility, few variables, and thus have a very low skill ceiling. This means having more experience beyond a certain point gives you zero advantage over other applicants. There's nothing someone with 10 years of experience in fast food is capable of that someone with only 1 year of experience isn't. Contrast this to a high IQ field like programming or engineering where the average person with 10 years of experience would generally have higher capability over someone with only 1 year of experience.
Anyway, this means, when it comes to the jobs that lowIQcels would qualify for, there is absolutely zero incentive for employers to hire applicants over 35, or even 30, over applicants in their late teens or early 20s.
But they have several major incentives NOT to hire older people. For one, older people are slower and have less energy. The decline starts at a much younger age than some people think, but employers know this. And obviously a 20 year old is going to have more energy and be quicker than a 40 year old.
But more importantly, older employees generally have higher healthcare utilization rates, which leads to increased costs for the company's healthcare plan. Corporations are freakishly meticulous, calculating, and hyper-optimize everything, so obviously they know all of this.
Now if you're autistic or just don't know how the world works you might say "UM, ACKSHUALLE AGE DISCRIMINATION IS ILLEGAL, THEY CAN'T DO THAT!". And while it's true it's technically against the law on paper, it's one of those things that's pretty much impossible to prove in court. Employers would never be stupid enough to say they don't hire people over a certain age, or tell an applicant their age was a factor in why they didn't hire them. In fact, employers never tell applicants why they don't hire them. At most they will send you a generic e-mail that says "thank you for your interest in the position position of SLAVE at [SUBSIDIARY OF TRANSNATIONAL MULTIBILLION DOLLAR MEGACORP] but at this time we have begun considering other candidates blah blah blah".
I've been working at the same place for years and I've gotten really burnt out on fast food, and dealing with one of the managers who I know is going to be a lifer, so for the past year (at least) I've been applying for every job I'm qualified for and I've had no luck. There is zero doubt in my mind that my age has played a role in my lack of success and I'm not optimistic for the future. So it looks like I'm going to have to continue to cling to my burger flipping job for dear life for the foreseeable future.
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