I genuinely truly hate that there is both a huge population of older/retiring senior programmers in all sorts of jobs (MEGACORPS, state, local, public, federal, and small-businesses alike) and also a huge population of eager/teachable junior programmers looking for jobs. If our stupid social organization wasn't so motivated by markets and profit we'd all be better off for it.

Older professionals linking up with younger professionals to cultivate talent, share ideas, and generally make better code would be great but the Vampires and Mummies don't want better products or better workers, they want profits and whatever the current magical hyped super-tech is. I'd also think a lot of our terrible brittle software infrastructure wouldn't suck so much either if new hires and seasoned professionals worked together more often.

Regardless, comp-sci majors aren't all would-be techno tyrants and wannabe Silicon Valley venture capitalists. Most of them are just regular people who did what they were "supposed" to do, and went to school to get a degree in field they were told will have have jobs for them. Sure like ~10-20% of them wanna be the next Zuckerberg or whatever, but that's true of any graduating class of STEM dorks.

It's all really fucked up. I feel bad for them because even if you push all of the many legitimate problems of higher education aside, that shit is too expensive to have a job lined up after graduation. 6-18 months of under/unemployment is not good for the souls of young people who have been told their whole life that you have to have a grown-up job or you're a bum.