# Age discrimination in employment - serious?  Continuing issue?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 16, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-discrimination-in-employment-serious-continuing-issue/550429 "2010-08-16T17:42:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-discrimination-in-employment-serious-continuing-issue/550429/5 "2010-08-16T18:03:47Z")

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I should add that one of the reasons this got me thinking is that I read somewhere that you can’t retire on less than a million bucks or so. Given that most people start working at around age 21 or so, so if this sentiment is true, you have less than 20-30 years to make a million dollars plus. I can’t see how this leaves much, if any, margin for error. If you lose more than, say, two or three years to a bad economy, bad decisions, or what have you, are you completely screwed?

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