What Happens to Older Developers?

Re:What Happens to Older Developers? by OldCoder on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @06:43AM (#7427751)

Yes, it's U.S. specific. I don't think it will happen in the EU. The EU may go through some changes, but I feel that health care will continue to be seen as something that countries need as part of a sound infrastructure.

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Re:What Happens to Older Developers? by bad_user on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @08:46AM (#7428213)

Unfortunately the change is inevitable, just as with pensions, because the population is aging and there isn't enough youth left to pay for it. And due to automatization or outsourcing, cheap labor is less and less needed anyway and high unemployment rates will be pretty common.

This reality in fact highlights another reality - our economic models based on scarcity don't work anymore and we need to either transcend it, maybe with technological improvements that drops the price of basic necessities, like food, energy and medical healthcare, or we're fucked.

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Re:What Happens to Older Developers? by humanrebar on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @10:32AM (#7428826)

> our economic models based on scarcity don't work anymore

Wait, isn't the premise of your comment that healthcare is too scarce?

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Re:What Happens to Older Developers? by bad_user on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @02:23PM (#7430674)

Well, yes. I also believe it shouldn't be.

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