Very good points all around! He still buys the argument that everything costs more because evil big corporations are price gouging. His bettor mentality is exactly as you describe. 

siggy47

Trying To Get A Friend Interested In SN

A rather difficult question to resolve, I think that it was difficult for me to understand Bitcoin, since I am a much younger person and sometimes I have money problems to pay my bills and I did not understand why everything was becoming more expensive. I suppose that for someone much older, and especially that age of 70 years, it is quite, quite difficult to shape a new model of thinking, and if we add to this that possibly it is not a person with money problems or caresses for their month to month, it is even more complicated to try to reach it.

And I would like to add this conclusion of my own based on people close to me.
 
>If you are a gambler, it is even more difficult! Gamblers do not have much long-term vision, nor are they motivated by projects that take time, gamblers love the adrenaline of the short term, the injection of instant excitement!