Different times, different pressures. Gulf war, 15% mortgage rates, rise of the loco’s, Arab spring, financial crash, Covid etc etc. It is easy to assume those on PP24 have had a easy 24 years. Now you can get or at least you could, get into the RHS of a Jet very quickly. Back then most worked some pretty terrible jobs to climb the ladder.
As I said, different times, different pressures. Both have merits to their arguments. The only thing that is reasonable to suggest is that we protect peoples careers. That may mean a bit of give, perhaps that give will not be uniform.