I've been seeing this "you can't find a job after 35/40/45" meme on HN pop up frequently. This literally can't be true: our economy would have collapsed by now if a large fraction of our population were forced into retirement at 40. If everyone became unemployable at 40, 1/3 of the population would be supporting the other 2/3. Yet instead we see low unemployment.

I don't doubt that age discrimination in tech is real, but I'm pretty sure comments like this are way overstating it.

What if there were other jobs than tech jobs and people were forced into those.

nah it’s real. The saying goes gotta change job verticals or job expectations at 40.