Why should anyone listen? You mean we should just write them off as worthless and...what? And, who knows if they care to learn or not? No one really tries with them.
When I graduated college in the early '90's I had to fit into and survive the world that was. You had to earn your keep, achieve to obtain position, gain your stripes to have an opinion worth listening to. You couldn't just spinmeister your way through things.
Not so today. It's 'buh...buh...technology' and 'you're old,' as if before 2008 and social media it was the days of the Victrola and Model T. This is why I can run circles around most of them at age 50, because they tend to project opinions rather than 'knowing your s***' as we used to say. We barely had time to give an opinion, we were running our asses off trying to survive.
There are a few that are good, and more traditional in their thinking, but they're a minority.