These are valid points but only to a degree. Disagreement in the value of experience is not the real problem.
The real and more serous issue is that discrimination is not rational. It is not about value or merit, it is an innate dislike, to varying degrees, regardless of merit, circumstances and value.
It has happened/is happening to other groups and the pattern is identical. It is probably a bit confusing because the group affected has generally never experienced it before. It may also be useful to a persons morale to convince themselves that if they only try harder, they can get any job. A pattern that might have actually worked when younger.
But even in this thread you have comments of the form "all people over 40 are X". And you have this in every thread on this topic and, because agism is generally acceptable, it includes language that, at least on this site, would unthinkable used against other groups.
To such people your abilities and price are irrelevant. While relevant skill is certainly a necessary condition to employment, it is in no way sufficient. Where bigotry is not overtly used, irrelevant conditions are piled on (such as randomly chosen college exam questions or culture fit) until the candidate can be plausibly dis missed.
So until the underlying irrational distrust and dislike is addressed, all the merit in the world will still only get you employed shrinking subset of organization.
The real and more serous issue is that discrimination is not rational. It is not about value or merit, it is an innate dislike, to varying degrees, regardless of merit, circumstances and value.
It has happened/is happening to other groups and the pattern is identical. It is probably a bit confusing because the group affected has generally never experienced it before. It may also be useful to a persons morale to convince themselves that if they only try harder, they can get any job. A pattern that might have actually worked when younger.
But even in this thread you have comments of the form "all people over 40 are X". And you have this in every thread on this topic and, because agism is generally acceptable, it includes language that, at least on this site, would unthinkable used against other groups.
To such people your abilities and price are irrelevant. While relevant skill is certainly a necessary condition to employment, it is in no way sufficient. Where bigotry is not overtly used, irrelevant conditions are piled on (such as randomly chosen college exam questions or culture fit) until the candidate can be plausibly dis missed.
So until the underlying irrational distrust and dislike is addressed, all the merit in the world will still only get you employed shrinking subset of organization.