A 50 year old who is "just learning python" is less attractive than a 16 year old doing the same.
There's more value in educating and pumping enthusiasm into a 16 year old than a 65 year old.
There's more value in educating and pumping enthusiasm into a 16 year old than a 65 year old.
What happens to these 16 year olds when they get to be 30, 40, 50. Do they think they are no longer able to start new things or they are less valuable? Because this is the message we are sending.
Nobody is saying you can't start new things. I'm saying the game is creating new experiences on hardware that didn't exist a year ago for, usually, a demographic of people under 30. Trying to break into that world as a nobody outside of that demographic and life experience is a long shot. Not impossible, but energies are better spent fueling people who have an actual chance at changing the world (and an entire lifetime ahead of them to do it).