【正确答案】Should People Be Rewarded According to Ability or Age?
When young men and women enter the society, it seems that they are placing themselves in a queue based on the age and their social relations. They go to the very end of the queue and stay there no matter how brilliant they are. What they know is much less important than whom they know and how old they age. If they are able, their abilities will be acknowledged and rewarded in due course—that is, after twenty or thirty years have passed.
There seem to be a "lot of factors that contribute to such a phenomenon. But the most important one is prejudice throughout the society. Firstly, the old generation often takes it for granted that the young often lack of experience so that they cannot deal with the problem in such a complicated world. They forget that the present society has provided them with better educational facilities and a lot of experiences before they enter the society. Secondly, the old also feel jealous of the young because they are afraid of losing what they have. A man of fifty might complain why a young rascal straight out of school should earn more than he does. Therefore, our society does its best to exclude the young from the jobs that really matter. In most fields, the views of young people are never heard because there is no one to represent them. The majority of young people have to wait patiently for years before they can really give full rein to their abilities.
As far as I am concerned, our society should judge people from their ability rather than their age and experiences. If the young is more able, determined and hard-working than his middle-aged critic, why shouldn't he be rewarded? Employers should recognize ability and reward it justly. This would remove one of the biggest causes of friction between old and young and ultimately it would lead to a better society.