I suspect rampant age discrimination in the US keeps a lot of the 50+ crowd from working. Companies prefer younger employees who don&#x27;t know that they are being taken advantage of, and that don&#x27;t have a high health insurance cost.<p>In my case, I may be retiring early as San Diego&#x27;s engineering job market is pretty terrible at the moment.
Qualcomm and HP doing layoffs does not help. Fortunately for me, I have rental income and investments to live off of.<p>The job market would be more equitable if we had single payer health insurance, and there was a limit on exempt employee working time (Like the EU). Enacting this two things would increase workplace diversity, increase the number of jobs available, and significantly reduce age discrimination.