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Show HN: Rent Elderly People – Skip Lines and Get Senior Perks
First of all, of course, this is a joke. But... what if it's not? What if it really makes sense? Take a look and let us know what you think!
- rswail 2y agoI mean, of course it's a joke, and yet...
- qup 2y agoHopefully these geezers won't have actual mobility issues, or you'll be outcompeted by a company with speedier seniors.
- ungreased0675 2y agoEven if this is a joke, it’s brilliant.
- zckly 2y agowhere can I invest?
- jeanmayer 2y agoclick "Learn more" on top banner and you can pay us to build it <3
- xivzgrev 2y ago10 years ago there was reservation hop. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7985137 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7985137 Coincidentally, if Mayer is your last name (from your handle) then you even share the same last name https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/reservation-hop-most-hated-person-in-san-francisco-limits-of-tech/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/reservation-hop-most...
- jeanmayer 2y agoyes, Mayer is my last name. That's a funny coincidence.
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- ksoped 2y agoThe benefits for seniors made me sad. Poor old people, this might actually be a good idea if it weren't for everything that's obviously wrong with it.
- rvz 2y agoThis just in: rentelderlypeople.com emerges out of stealth and raises $100M from prominent VCs and angel investors to change the world and disrupt the senior citizens market. /s
- OccamsMirror 2y agoNah, they're too late, ZIRP is over.
- gregjor 2y agoI know it’s a joke, but if real it could cause businesses to stop offering senior discounts once they get wise to the scam.
- jeanmayer 2y agowell, that makes sense
- ooterness 2y agoReminds me of Punchr, a satirical startup that matches bullies with people that deserve to get punched. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8doxdoQTCkQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8doxdoQTCkQ
- snapplebobapple 2y agomakes me nostalgic for 2014, back when, while not being ok, it was still allowed to say "gaytarded" without fear of a full cancellation.
- II2II 2y agoLet's put it this way: the idea makes so little sense that it has never been done at scale. That is saying a lot since it is: - An obvious idea. People routinely benefit off of senior and student benefits from friends and family members. - There are more than enough people who lack scruples and would outright exploit seniors. I would imagine that there are even more people who would be happy to enter arrangements of mutual benefit. The underlying problem is that such a company would erode social trust. There would be a very short term opportunity to exploit the loophole, so to speak, before senior benefits would be tightly controlled, reduced until such a scheme is no longer profitable, or outright eliminated. And that is taking the perspective of people who would partake. There are more than a few people who would find such schemes morally reprehensible and would never participate (which would limit the market).
- mchinen 2y agoI enjoyed this. I wished a bit that the website's "Increased Lifespan (source)" also claimed a 50% lifespan increase from the linked SA blog and associative study that showed a 50% likelihood of survival increase over a given period.