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This reads as a dry joke about age, but it also points to the odd reversal that comes with getting older, status can feel both real and less useful at once. The line can be taken to mean that age brings perspective, yet not always authority. It lands in any setting where someone is expected to speak with senior weight but prefers to puncture that expectation.
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