Gerontocracy discourse often conflates age as a prerequisite for accumulating knowledge and age as a prerequisite for accumulating capital. The former is good. The latter is bad.
In the US, the latter works against the former. People with genuine cognitive health issues are kept in positions of authority because they have spent a lifetime accumulating capital either for themselves or on behalf of the capitalist class.
Gerontocracy discourse often conflates age as a prerequisite for accumulating knowledge and age as a prerequisite for accumulating capital. The former is good. The latter is bad.
In the US, the latter works against the former. People with genuine cognitive health issues are kept in positions of authority because they have spent a lifetime accumulating capital either for themselves or on behalf of the capitalist class.