Comment by tluyben2

Probably most are not high performing? They are expensive, often slower (or at least perceived as slower), get ill more and don't work as many hours as younger employees. In a lot of jobs, you really want to have your things in order when you hit 40 as when you get fired there is not a lot of room for you anymore. Those are usually the jobs people over that age will be pushed out. As I am that age, I know too many people between 40-50 who get fired and that's it; they will not get hired anywhere else. Once 'successful' (if they really were they wouldn't get fired or at least find other jobs easily, so successful for a definition of double average income (I'm not sure that goes for the US; triple/quadruple whatever could apply, in NL we have a word for it) for instance), now unemployed with 25-30 years to go before (meagre) pension.