I can't help feeling that the habit of removing identifying markers (names, ages, etc) from resumes to try to ensure equality in hiring is also part of the same ill-fated direction.
I dearly wish that the world I was leaving my kids wasn't so dehumanised.
What? There is well documented and clear evidence that these indicators actually lead to highly biased decisions regarding who gets interviewed. Removing them is the right thing to do.
My point was a more general one, that we are being sucked into a strangely anti-human world where those in power would like nothing more than to reduce us to a mere employee number. Just data in a spreadsheet. It's so much less messy that way, right?