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Re:Early Retirement May Speed Up Cognitive Decline: Study by sbierwagen on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:18PM (#21404478)
To steal from patio11, an employment contract is both payment for current services and also an option on future services-- hiring people is hard, and you want to keep them around.[1] A 60 year old is less valuable since they're more likely to retire than a 30 year old.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21177759

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Re:Early Retirement May Speed Up Cognitive Decline: Study by Spooky23 on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:27PM (#21404529)
Most places treat employees like crap, or structure compensation so that you need to bounce between places.

As to why old people, higher skill levels in many cases.

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Re:Early Retirement May Speed Up Cognitive Decline: Study by kortilla on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:32PM (#21404557)
That would matter if people in software didn’t move so frequently to other jobs.
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