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Will people aged 40 and above still can find decent jobs?

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A casual chat with a friend aged 40 and above struck me hard when she said age does play a role in determining a person can still look for new job.  Her recent cases where she no longer has better opportunity or responses like when she was young when trying to enquire for new jobs or pay-per-project. The limiting factor is her age despite having vast experience under her belt.  Probably with more experience, employers are worried or not so keen in paying more for the experience although it could mean that the jobs can be done better and faster. Or probably the younger employees are having better grasp in what experienced workers can do, thanks to the technology that speeds up their learning process.  Where do people aged 40 and above can go then?  With the inflation and longer life span, most of the people are left with no choice but to continue working as long as possible to make ends meet.  For those who are climbing the career leader, many might think that they will continue going u

Facebook jailed my account and deleted it for good.

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  After making several posts about gardening and farming, suddenly the app notified that Facebook was reviewing the content as it detected, or someone reported that I had violated the community standards.  Initially, it stated that it would only be less than 24 hours but few hours later, Facebook notified that they would shut down and wipe it out for good. There was no specific explanation on which way had I violated the guideline, there was no warning, no mercy, no appeal opportunity given. No trial given. Just when I thought that this US-based company would be as democratic as the country on freedom of speech and etc, Facebook management acts like communist.  I am still wondering how they make the judgment on just shutting down people's accounts like mine, when there are many more offenders using Facebook doing even worse on spreading hate, cyberbullying, scamming people. It still puzzled me in what way gardening is deemed as harming the community.  Seeing how they took down the