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

  • datavoid@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    How are pension recipients determined?

    …Didn’t that war end like 160 years ago?

    • SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      38
      ·
      2 months ago

      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
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        2 months ago

        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?