Doesn’t the fact that we still have ageism mean these policies don’t work? Also it’s already illegal to discriminate in the basis of age >40 so why do we even n

Doesn’t the fact that we still have ageism mean these policies don’t work? Also it’s already illegal to discriminate in the basis of age >40 so why do we even need “policies” in the first place? I always find it weird when the argument for more regulations is that the current regulations are ineffective.