The difference to me is that the other situations are usually temporary. If you’re a student, or unemployed, or a full-time parent, you’re donating 1% of spending money to keep some skin in the game with the expectation that at some point you’ll earn enough to do a normal pledge. If you’re retired, pledging 1% of spending money with no plan to ever donate more isn’t much of a commitment.
Sorry I missed seeing this earlier.
The difference to me is that the other situations are usually temporary. If you’re a student, or unemployed, or a full-time parent, you’re donating 1% of spending money to keep some skin in the game with the expectation that at some point you’ll earn enough to do a normal pledge. If you’re retired, pledging 1% of spending money with no plan to ever donate more isn’t much of a commitment.