"If you shouldn’t think of your workplace as a family, how should you approach it? [...] a simple answer: like a professional sports team. “You should organize

"If you shouldn’t think of your workplace as a family, how should you approach it? [...] a simple answer: like a professional sports team. “You should organize around this idea that everyone has to fight for their job every year, like it is in professional sports,”" How does this square against ageism in workplace? Sports is notoriously ageist: once you are past your prime, there's the door, and hope you saved a bunch, as your income is going to be a fraction of what it was at best. You could say IT is young person's game, and your tenure at AirBnb or Netfix might be a year or two, so play and then jump to some other, more stable employment opportunity. But I wonder why some companies are allowed to be so aggressive with their firing policies.