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Old people are living too long, part XVII

January 25, 2012 By Kathy Shaidle

Offering senior discounts is “absurd, illogical, and helping fuel the economic divide,” opines Don Campbell…

What’s more, says Don, the “top income-earning years for most professional and skilled workers are from about age 50 to age 62. Which means that people who are making the most money and have the highest net worth are in effect being subsidized in the marketplace by a generation 20 and 30 years younger that often is struggling to pay off student loans, establish a career, start a family and buy a first home.”

He concludes: “What I wonder about is why thirty- and forty-somethings aren’t livid that senior citizens — the most pampered, patronized and pandered-to group in America — get to save money simply by maintaining a pulse.”

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