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Old Sep 15, 2019 | 9:12 pm
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Originally Posted by zeus2120
Side note with just a thought I have regarding this promotion. I completely understand the reasoning behind this (sign up for MP, become a customer at a young age). But...how are promotions like this not age discrimination against everyone else? What if the promotion was only for a specific race instead of age? For example, "Asian customers receive 10% off" (with hopes to capture more market share from the most populated continent in the world). I'd guess that the media today would be 100% negative about a promotion being targeted to a certain demographic of people. No point to this post besides wanting to see what others think!
Age discrimination has a very specific scope that mostly applies to employee-employer relationships.. Car insurance companies regularly discriminate based on age. I am sure United's lawyers have vetted this quite well.
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