Older folks have lived long enough to have:
– gained some experience of life and their fellow man;
– developed their powers of observation;
– gained an insider’s knowledge of particular places or professions…or developed the ability to fake it;
– observed how plotting and story/character development should work;
– mastered the art of sentence construction;
– discovered a message they want to impart.

With rare exceptions, younger people either have nothing to say, or don’t know how to say it.

Whippersnappers….