It’s Not An Age Divide, It’s A Deregulation Divide

All those people who had a certain amount of labour experience prior to or into the early 1990s and then carried on, they weren’t necessarily the ones who have seen that sort of precarity and job loss. Their experience carried them through.

People entering the workforce since then have had to contend with the continual erosion of labour standards, labour law, and collective bargaining, as well as all these different kinds of carveouts, especially around self-employment.  

It creates what looks like an age divide, but it’s not really. It’s a deregulation divide.

John Peters, from “‘The rich and everybody else’: Financial inequality in Canada keeps growing”