Table of the Day: Ageism in Silicon Valley

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.


Over at the Upshot, Quoctrung Bui writes about some research showing which jobs older applicants (55+) are most and least likely to get. It’s no surprise that older workers are less likely to get physically demanding jobs, but that’s not actually the category that toughest on older workers:

This is the Silicon Valley mentality at work. The hiring managers at these companies simply don’t believe that anyone over 50 can possibly learn anything new. Nor will these oldsters work 100 hours a week (which is probably true). This is a message to the young bucks of the coding world: you’d better treat your career the same way football players do. You may be on top of the world right now, but in 20 years you’ll be considered a dinosaur too. If you don’t make enough money so you can retire at 50, you’ll be screwed.

Fact:

Mother Jones was founded as a nonprofit in 1976 because we knew corporations and billionaires wouldn't fund the type of hard-hitting journalism we set out to do.

Today, reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget, allows us to dig deep on stories that matter, and lets us keep our reporting free for everyone. If you value what you get from Mother Jones, please join us with a tax-deductible donation today so we can keep on doing the type of journalism 2024 demands.

payment methods

Fact:

Today, reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget, allows us to dig deep on stories that matter, and lets us keep our reporting free for everyone. If you value what you get from Mother Jones, please join us with a tax-deductible donation today so we can keep on doing the type of journalism 2024 demands.

payment methods

We Recommend

Latest

Sign up for our free newsletter

Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox.

Get our award-winning magazine

Save big on a full year of investigations, ideas, and insights.

Subscribe

Support our journalism

Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation.

Donate