Markets are not perfectly rational but you seem to be unwilling to consider the idea that favoring younger workers might actually be rational. I doubt age disc

Markets are not perfectly rational but you seem to be unwilling to consider the idea that favoring younger workers might actually be rational. I doubt age discrimination is economically efficient, but I'm willing to let that play out. Secondly, if older workers need to be subsidized in some way because they're unable to compete there's probably a better way to do so than to punish employers who are unable to skirt labor laws.