Once you reach a certain age, you are unemployable (in other words, companies don’t want to employ you). They, instead, wish to put you out to pasture. They need to eliminate the old to indoctrinate the young, whose minds they believe are more pliable. In this way, they can continue to recreate the system of production and consumption and thus maintain their power. In some societies in the past, they used to revere the old as sources of wisdom and knowledge. Contemporary Western societies equate the old with senility. Some older adults are quite happy to uphold this bias.