“I’m glad there are a growing number of senior discounts,” Linda Groom from Las Vegas says. “It’s like a reward for getting old. It is a way to recognize our status. There should be even more discounts to recognize us.”

While senior discounts are ubiquitous, not everyone likes them. Sometimes, even seniors don’t like them. My brother, who is in his mid-70s loathes them.

“When someone asks me if I want a senior discount, I ask them what makes them think I’m a senior,” he says. “That usually stops them in their tracks. I think senior discounts do more harm than good. It perpetuates age bias.”

Not everyone agrees with him, not even me. I don’t mind getting a discount or even the free soda that Chick-fil-A offers to seniors. It doesn’t take much to decide to go to Chick-fil-A anyway, but th

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