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Re:Facebook's employees reckon with the social network they'... by sowellecho on Thursday July 23, 2020 @02:14PM (#23930379)
"If a man is not a Socialist at 20 be has no heart, but if he remains one at 30 he has no head." I don't know who said this, but this is a great example of how our minds mature.

The probably unintentional ageism in tech has a major, quite literally civilization changing consequence.

We are creating power centers which have too many young people who haven't really thought a lot of things through, certainly not the unintended economic consequences, and who glibly dismiss people who disagree with their premises as some kind of "ism".

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Re:Facebook's employees reckon with the social network they'... by Talanes on Thursday July 23, 2020 @03:53PM (#23931551)
That quote is just a way for people who have grown more conservative than they were in youth to excuse their cognitive dissonance. It's not some great truth.
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Re:Facebook's employees reckon with the social network they'... by orhmeh09 on Thursday July 23, 2020 @02:29PM (#23930557)
That’s a crass dismissal of the people involved here and socialism. You think that the problem really is that everyone at Facebook is too young and is thus more inclined toward recklessness (somehow involving socialism)?

PS: Would you be shocked to learn that some become socialists after age 30?

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