• booly@sh.itjust.works
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    8 hours ago

    “Blame” means to attribute for some negative result. There’s no assigning fault here, just an observation, and an explanation behind that observation.

    If I said “Bob is a fucking idiot,” that’s not blaming Bob for anything.

    So yeah, I stand by my explanation behind the observation in OP’s screenshot: that people tend to draw on past experiences even when those experiences are no longer as relevant, or are even actively misleading. And that the phenomenon I describe (that not all prices inflate at the same rate or preserve the same ratios to each other) exacerbates the problem.

    • BlackSheep@lemmy.ca
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      7 hours ago

      OK. I’m seeing “the real problem with old people”. So, de facto, there’s a problem with old people.