Comments on: nextgen netroots technology https://archives.lessig.org/?p=3554 2002-2015 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:01:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 By: Greg Nichols https://archives.lessig.org/?p=3554#comment-24657 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:01:40 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2008/06/nextgen_netroots_technology.html#comment-24657 Who’d have though Lessig would be perpetuating the stereotype that only kids understand the Internet?

Maybe what ever “kid” cuts his teeth on Change Congress will know something by 2012.

]]> By: Joe Buck https://archives.lessig.org/?p=3554#comment-24656 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:34:01 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2008/06/nextgen_netroots_technology.html#comment-24656 Expressing a preference for a younger person over an older person in a hiring decision might constitute age discrimination. Sure, if you get a “kid”, he/she is likely to work for less and put in longer hours, because of a lack of other good opportunities. How convenient for you.

Speaking as someone who still makes a living doing software development well past the age of 40, I often encounter attitudes like this.

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