An argument for monetary reparation for systematic deprivation and impoverishment of people over age 55 by
labor market ageism
 

If you  think about ageism, 
writer Richard Cowper's assessment rings true: "Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the 
people we meet.  Whatever we truly think 
them to be,  that's what they'll become for us."

Consider  the notion that  skills and abilities deteriorate after age 55.  Thus, despite our  knowledge, skills, abilities and aspirations, 
older workers are restricted to the 
lowest paying,  dead end, repetitive jobs,
and  excluded from opportunities to learn 
and update skills. 

Skills deteriorate,  experience becomes progressively  remote in time,  and  abilities to compete in a rapidly advancing labor force progressively diminish.  Then  the 
soaring tax burden of supporting older citizens 
may be blamed on the aging process.

If you believe that the aging process causes 
all health disorders that develop in later life, 
you will disregard concerns that  protracted deprivation and impoverishment, resulting from systematic job discrimination,  impairs
health.  Then you can blame the aging process 
for the increasing costs of  health care for 
older citizens.

Politicians say that  federal law prohibits job discrimination because of age,  when it predominately deters employers from disclosing
that they discriminate against
older workers. 

Furthermore,  to  the extent that discrimination, 
the resulting deprivation and health problems disable older citizens in competing in the labor force,  their exclusion from opportunities may be justified by factors other than discrimination. 

Nonetheless,  our resentment  and taxpayers' obligations are unabated. 

So,  if you are indifferent to ageism,  when this seedbed of inter-generational strife  becomes too
burdensome,  too chaotic, remember your 
elected officials who helped to shape what 
we have become for you.
 

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