Get with the real world age discrimination is real very very real you see even if you have value for the business and improved your skills most places want someone that can do the job fairly well at a lower rate besides times have changed and so has the work ethic and customer service????
Forget about it
It is not most places. Anyway, why would anyone want to work at a place that wants average? In my previous businesses I demanded excellence. If someone didn't want to rise to that level they where shown the door. It's business. It's not charity. Businessmen invest their life savings and lives into the their businesses. Basically, if you eff with my capital, you are gone. On the other hand, if you excel and make big profits you get rewarded, as in bonuses. One of the things I always took pride in was people leaving my employ to pursue a business on their own. They took personal responsibility for their futures. They took risk. That's American. Average is not.
The irony is, these young leftists, screaming about discrimination, never mention discrimination against older workers. Someone should mention that to them. Curious to hear their reaction, though I'd expect them to respond that older people should get out of the way to make way for them.