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Notes on ageism, Pt. II: On the objections
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Notes on ageism, Pt. II: On the objections

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Carl Beijer
Jun 28, 2016
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This is the second of a three part series. The first, “You can’t have capitalism without ageism,” is here.

In the first part of this series, I described a mechanism of capitalist wealth distribution that is fundamentally ageist. Because capitalism ties wealth to labor opportunities that only emerge over time, older people will have more opportunities to …

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