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Why are college sports interesting to people who didn’t attend the college they’re rooting for? I understand that all of sports is based on a certain amount of fictional loyalty but at least in professional sports there’s at least a regional or familial “reason”. I just find it odd.
Bonus: I don’t believe for a moment that the olds who wield political and economic power do so in ways that benefit old people generally. In fact, the opposite is patently obvious. The olds in power tend to wield power in such a way they their racial, gender, and cultural cohorts retain and gain power. Which is, again, another disanalogy with white supremacy.
Compare that reality of white privilege to the majority reality of being old: Massive negative age bias in hiring: rejecting applicants merely because they’re old (40+) may be illegal but it is absolutely socially acceptable. Massive negative age bias in layoffs: laying off your most senior staff because they’re old may be illegal but it is absolutely socially acceptable. And being old can absolutely make many of your other problems worse. Institutions, businesses, agencies, health systems will treat your problems as merely the result of you not being computer savvy (regardless of how compu
It is undoubtedly true that the powerful economically, politically, academically - are old and getting older. But, as for the analogy to white supremacy,… Moyn responds to objections he’s heard based on the prevalence of ageism (negative age bias) by pointing out that plenty of white people are poor but that doesn’t erase the reality of systemic white supremacy. Which is absolutely true. However, Being white is never a cost to a white person in the US. You might be living in poverty without essential welfare services and going hungry regularly - but being white will never be one of your p
The Problem of Gerontocracy This episode is a conversation with Samuel Moyn, author of Gerontocracy in America The premise of the book and conversation is that the US and many other nations (definitely the UK and European nations but probably most) are run by and mostly for the old. The old wield political, economic, academic, and legal power. And they basically only let go of it when they die and, increasingly, the ones who inherit it are themselves fairly old because powerful old people live longer. What’s more, so the premise goes, this positive age bias is just another bigotry like whi
ppfideas.com An Ageing World: The Problem of Gerontocracy
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