Diana,
I appreciate your thoughts. I, too, have experienced the inequities of corporate life as you have described. I don't think government regulation will solve that. It goes more to a matter of character.
However, I am trying to look at a growing trend in our culture where there are completely different world views and how that plays out in the marketplace. It's not just about how older leaders deal with younger workers. It's also about how younger workers relate to their leaders and how they can succeed in the new normal we find ourselves in. In a relativistic truth model, the behaviors of a corporation as you describe cannot be judged to be unfair. After all, what's right for them is okay. Everybody's okay. Everyone's view is okay. It is like playing a game where everyone makes up the rules to fit how they want to play.
I would propose that it is only by living by an absolute truth model that we can operate effectively as a society. Then we can judge what is fair and unfair because we have a solid standard by which to judge. Our country's history has had a foundation of common values and behaviors that have served us well and enabled us to grow and build as a nation. We have moved away from those common values and behaviors. We need to return to what has worked and refine as necessary. Where we are at now isn't working.