When I was a kid, I thought adults over-emphasized experience to exercise power, even though they appeared to have learned little from it in actuality.

Given that I’m no longer nearly a kid, I think I was mostly right about that contention.

Experience is not nothing, but it’s mainly used (as I thought at the time) as a method of exerting power over those who don’t have that method of competing in the contest of ideas and action.

While some adults do use experience as a cognitive benefit, most just use it as yet another source of confirmation bias so it’s not a real factor in most decision-making processes in the real world.