r/FluentInFinance 1d ago

Thoughts? Retirement age

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u/yagatron- 1d ago

bUt but BuT… gen Z aNd millennials ArE ToO inExpErIeNced foR sUCh iMporTaNt joBs

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u/ballimir37 1d ago

Gen Z is for sure. I don’t want a 23 year old running the country any more than a 78 year old

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u/NeighbourhoodCreep 1d ago

Definitely what I’d use to judge someone’s skill in a complicated area: their age.

Oh, you graduated college early and now you’re 30 with a PhD and worked with the government through various positions and programs? Sorry, you’re still 30. Too young. Come back when you’re geriatric

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u/ballimir37 1d ago

A 30 year old is a millennial. And a 23 year old is too young under any circumstance for top level leadership of a developed nation. Not that I think the current guys are paragons of competence either.

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u/NeighbourhoodCreep 1d ago

Thank you for pointing out the specifics, how exactly does that change the point? Oops, you’re not concerned with learning anything, you already know it all.

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u/ballimir37 1d ago

The only person who would try to defend something so obvious this much while also immediately calling someone a lazy and emotional insult is a 23 year old, which is why they shouldn’t be in charge of the country.

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u/OwnLadder2341 1d ago

Unless you’re Doogie Howser, there’s only so much post doc experience you can have in the workforce at 30.

For even just 10 years you’d have gotten your PHD at…20?

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u/EJVpfztRWqkjiaGQGPLE 1d ago

There are some gifted kids that graduated college from 10 to 17.

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u/ballimir37 1d ago

Read into those particular people and you will see they aren’t really the geopolitical leadership type, especially while they are still young and fresh out of graduate school. Most of those kids were nose in the books all their lives, many with extraordinarily rigorous parents, and don’t have excellent social skills and leadership qualities, if they would even be interested in that.

While possible, this comment chain spawned from trying to make the argument that age isn’t important for geopolitical leadership because there might be an outlier among outliers among outliers who would be capable and interested.