spooky2092
joined 1 month ago
You've side stepped the point I was making yet again to argue something else, but I'll indulge in this one last time.
Ageism already exists in the system and we don’t have an issue with it. It’s just okay to be ageist against young people.
I personally don't agree with this at all.
Your disagreement doesn't change laws on the books.
My idea is when one generation gets older that they kind of become the assistants of the next generation coming up behind them, and then we just repeat that cycle every generation.
That can never happen when the previous generation is unwilling to let go of the reigns and are determined to die in office of at all possible.
Ageism at any age is wrong, but I've seen it practiced a lot more against older people that I have against younger people (especially online), hence my initial comment.
Ok, well I'm talking about what happens in the real world, not people screaming into the void online. Whether or not you hear more about it towards the older gen online, the real world is ageist against younger generations all the time.
I don't give a wet shit about online people arguing when there's objective reality to look at for real examples. Good day.
Ageism already exists in the system and we don't have an issue with it. It's just okay to be ageist against young people.
We say younger people are not mature enough for certain tasks, but I know plenty of kids who are younger than the required age but able to understand and perform the same tasks. Does that mean we should let 12 year olds have drivers licenses? Are we just going to ignore these kids because they haven't met a specific age criteria? Or are we going to say that as a rule, they don't have the mental capacity to have that privilege/responsibility.
We already have rails in place for older people to have their driving privileges taken away, at the very minimum there should be one for government work. You keep saying this is 'throwing away' older people, when in reality, this is removing people before they do not have the capacity to do it themselves. No one is saying they can't advise, but they absolutely should not be steering the future of this country. Because that's how we get to where we are now.
Another thing that helps is to answer and immediately mute your line so the caller only hears an empty line. Spam dialers hang up and eventually mark the number as invalid, and most people who are real callers will prompt with a hello or something. I did that for a while before I got the Google call screen, which cut it down even more.
I've gotten a lot less spam calls since I started using the Google assist call screener. I get legitimate calls that hang up because my idiot ops guys can't listen to the recording and say what they need to when they call me direct instead of my office redirect line, but it also seems to chase off the spammers if they know their AI has to get through my AI to even have a chance at trying to scam me, since I'm a harder target than average.
Not sure why people keep conflating age with capability/morality, they're definately seperate things.
Because while they may be different things, but they're absolutely not separate things given how age and cognitive decline are correlated. Because for every Bernie sanders you have multiple Feinsteins or Grangers that are at best not there or at worst hindering processes, holding up committee votes or taking up committee seats that could be used by someone who actually wants to improve things instead of making the line go up.
Bernie is an exception who proves the rule, unfortunately.