I’m almost 50. I want to make sure that the younger generation knows something important.
You are not hired because you know more.
You are hired because you are easily manipulated. You know just enough to do the job you are told to do.
You haven’t had enough experience or time in the position to know why something is a bad idea.
When your manager comes to you with their “brilliant” idea, you are going to try and implement it and assume that if you can’t you are to blame.
And they need that. They need people that don’t know to tell them all the reasons what they are asking for is asinine.