Timeline for Why aren't there upper-age limits for government officials in the US?
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| Jan 24, 2020 at 17:33 | comment | added | jamesqf | @M i ech: OTOH, if you've been around a while (and studied a bit of history), you might realize that the world really doesn't change all that much. | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 10:15 | comment | added | M i ech | @jamesqf At the rate world is changing, experience is increasingly overrated. Experience from 30 years ago might just as well be a detriment to good judgement. | |
| Feb 18, 2019 at 16:30 | comment | added | TylerH | There has been a solution to work around age discrimination concerns for quite some time - term limits. They are just not popular with politicians because it means giving up power. | |
| Aug 23, 2017 at 4:58 | comment | added | jamesqf | @DariM: Perhaps it has no scientific basis, but it certainly has a practical one, experience. It takes time to accumulate, especially in today's world. | |
| Aug 21, 2017 at 21:21 | comment | added | DariM | @jamesqf Perhaps (arguably with situations and people constantly changing, I'd say that's not at all helpful or a "cure"), but the idea of where you draw the line of "too young" or "too old" is equally arbitrary. A minimum requirement of 35 for President for example has no real basis in any accepted scientific measure or anything like that. | |
| Aug 21, 2017 at 18:02 | comment | added | jamesqf | @DariM: While that's to some extent true, the difference is that minimum age requirements are inherently curable. People who are too young now will get older, but those "too old" will not get younger. | |
| Aug 21, 2017 at 3:35 | comment | added | David says Reinstate Monica | @DariM Yep, you could :). Some groups even do say that. To a certain extent you are totally right. | |
| Aug 21, 2017 at 2:58 | comment | added | DariM | In saying that, one could apply ageism to minimum age requirements. | |
| Aug 20, 2017 at 23:16 | history | answered | David says Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |