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24 March 2014

The brutal ageism of tech: meet Silicon Valley’s obsolete workforce

In the one corner of the American economy defined by its relentless optimism, there is now a large and growing class of highly trained, objectively talented, surpassingly ambitious workers who are shunted to the margins.

By Noam Scheiber

(Photo By San Jose in Silicon Valley. Photo: Getty)

This article first appeared on newrepublic.com

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