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"That’s the real problem with old people’s sense of money”. That is blaming old people.
"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.
OK. I’m seeing “the real problem with old people”. So, de facto, there’s a problem with old people.