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I think the best example is the PlayStation 2 being discontinued in 2013, as well the PlayStation 1 in 2006

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[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 66 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The last American Civil War pension recipient died in 2020.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

How are pension recipients determined?

...Didn't that war end like 160 years ago?

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

US Civil war vets who lived to be 90 married little girls at the end of their life. Usually it was an arrangement. The little girls would then be eligible for the pension and it transferred to them when the veteran died. Some of these girls themselves lived to their 90s, hence you had state governments still pay civil war annuities in the era of TikTok.

[–] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Stuff like this is also why a lot of companies have also moved away from pensions, one it's expensive, two mismanagement, but it turns out that offering to pay someone for free until the end of their life doesn't make shareholders happy, so fuck the employees right?

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

now we'll be lucky if we retire at all

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Civil war employees must've had a powerful Union lol.

[–] 01011@monero.town 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hardened war veterans with guns and nothing to lose.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

"In a world..."