Ageism isn't even on the radar, my friend. And it's ironic too, because as you mention, it affects every one of us.

But the current hot topics are diversity and gender discrimination. No problem there, but I have noticed that even people who take those two issues very seriously implicitly blow off the ageism thing. I think people just do not want to acknowledge that they're going to get older too, I think they put it out of their minds.

I've literally had a conversation with someone who said he wanted to make sure we don't just hire a bunch of people like him (i.e., white males who went to the same college he did). Then a few minutes later he made a snide remark about "some old guy" (the old guy was an engineer he was unfamiliar with).

So, I am very pessimistic about the prospect of this issue getting any real attention.