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In general, should senior citizens get discounts, just for being old?
#poll
Yes, they’ve earned it
Yes, if costs arent passed to youth
No, needs to be means-testing
No, everyone pays the same
Other
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The Biggest List of Senior Discounts (May 2026)

www.theseniorlist.com

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Anonymous 1d

I think senior discounts should have nothing to do with earning it. they should exist because thats a vulnerable population that often has less financial security. the same reasoning behind student discounts.

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Anonymous 1d

Yes because most are on a fixed income and struggle to afford things.

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Anonymous 1d

It’s pennies on the dollar. Who gives af.

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Anonymous 1d

They should have to pay more

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Anonymous 1d

Worked in retail for a while & the old people were always the fucking rudest customers. I don’t know why senior citizens discount is even a thing

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Anonymous 18h

They get social security, like, way more than they paid into. Thats their discount.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 17h

Not even remotely true

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 17h

Ok, I did some research and you are right, my mistake there. But I still think there’s some issues with the discount idea. Didn’t they grown up in a booming economy? Why weren’t they saving? I know millennials and gen x’rs with way better retirement projections who found jobs in a way worse economy, because they started saving early. Why should I have to offset a discount just because there was no planning ahead? Maybe they tried though.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 16h

There are plenty who did if they could but like, there have always been poor and working class people who can’t, in any generation.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 16h

And with the way social security is actually set up, the main issue is that baby boomers are such a large population of retiring people that there aren’t enough people *currently* paying in to fund them. Something similar is going to happen with gen z because we’re the second largest boom behind them. We just don’t have any established economic or social infrastructure to do shit

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