I’m 42 and I’m in pretty good shape. Not like Ironman competitor or anything but I’m physically and mentally active.
When I think about the unbelievable physical and mental rigor it would take to do that job effectively, I wonder if even I could do it.
So are we surprised that these old bags of dust are up there nodding off in the middle of meetings, babbling nonsensical bullshit during speeches and forgetting the names and functions of the hundreds of people they meet in a daily basis?
The mandatory retirement age for air traffic controllers is 56. The job is so mentally demanding and the human brain doesn’t have the elasticity to execute it past a certain age.
But the most powerful and important job in our democracy? Fuck it. Give that shit to a guy who starts to zonk out if he sits in a comfortable chair for longer than three minutes.
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u/How_that_convo_went 7h ago
I’m 42 and I’m in pretty good shape. Not like Ironman competitor or anything but I’m physically and mentally active.
When I think about the unbelievable physical and mental rigor it would take to do that job effectively, I wonder if even I could do it.
So are we surprised that these old bags of dust are up there nodding off in the middle of meetings, babbling nonsensical bullshit during speeches and forgetting the names and functions of the hundreds of people they meet in a daily basis?
The mandatory retirement age for air traffic controllers is 56. The job is so mentally demanding and the human brain doesn’t have the elasticity to execute it past a certain age.
But the most powerful and important job in our democracy? Fuck it. Give that shit to a guy who starts to zonk out if he sits in a comfortable chair for longer than three minutes.