From a mere writing standpoint it could just have been a shortcut, so that Joe doesn't get a hard time explaining to her all the things she surely wouldn't believe, which wouldn't bring the story much further (Ok, maybe it could have opened other interresting conflicts and sub-stories, but well).
And in fact when he started "time travel is not possible, but in thirty years..." I found myself thinking nerved "Whoa man, stop it, she's never gonna buy that" only to be relieved when she said "You're a looper", thinking "thanks, not a hard long mistrustful explanation session".
I'm not saying that's the only reason (or that everybody would have felt like me and explaining it to her couldn't have been a good story arc, too) and there is no in-story explanation. But seeing that not everything in Looper was that thought out well, it's a possibility.
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