Do people actually toss away their stuff the moment an add for the next generation rolls out?

I grow up with a lot of technology much older that me because people still had it. Typically, a elderly house would have older stuff than people the age of my parent. I had new toys and stuffs from the last generation and plenty of older hand me down from older siblings and oncles.

It blows my mind to see some young people so uneducated about the very recent past. You didn’t live this time but the majority of the society in which you take part did. How could this be so exotic to you?

Girl if you don’t know the difference between the Ottoman and the Byzantine empires just know that you instruction is seriously lacking.

EDIT: education for instruction