Being a Software Developer, a "socially invulnerable" person, I won't be bothered by people saying something as misguided as "all your experience is obsolete". I'll have a good laugh.
I think some of us take themselves a bit too much seriously. As a programmer, you have not just First World, but actually Zeroth World problems. In the world of struggle we are having a guilt-free easy ride.
But you know who has worse financial, employment, work-life balance, motivation problems? Almost everybody else.
These posts read as "please somebody solve it for us." But we are the solvers. Think we have problems with older developers employment? Influence a hire of a team of them. Who will do that for you?
I do it all the time and probably bothered a good amount of my friends.
I just find this problem reported massively more than it is worth. Everybody who cares even a bit is long aware. Today, I will appreciate posts on "what we did about this problem already". And I have already seen one just recently:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13194074
I think some of us take themselves a bit too much seriously. As a programmer, you have not just First World, but actually Zeroth World problems. In the world of struggle we are having a guilt-free easy ride.