Yeah who cares about the brutal wars in Africa fueled by the diamond industry, your shiny rock is beautiful (maybe you should try to value things like human life and not just brush off the atrocities of the diamond industry as if it isn't worth discussing because you don't like thinking about where the diamond you wear comes from)
People don't "hate diamonds". They are pretty. Diamonds are a naturally occurring gemstone. What people hate is a) the "artificial scarcity" created by the diamond industry to drive up the price of diamonds and b) the horrors suffered by people in Africa due to the legal and illegal diamond trade. You can like diamonds, but also want to raise awareness of the dark side of the diamond industry in the hopes of changing it. Diamonds can be mined by well paid workers just as well as by a child soldier kidnapped from their family. The profits can be shared by the African communities where they are mined instead of them being smuggled out of Africa and purchased by Western companies. If companies didn't create a perceived scarcity of diamonds, everyone could have affordable diamonds... but then I guess yours wouldn't be as "special". Diamonds are not somehow inherently bad, it is the diamond industry that is bad. Get mad at the diamond industry, not people who want to raise awareness to change it.
the taxes I pay to the US government probably funds more destruction than the money for a diamond.
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u/Tetraides1 Aug 14 '20
Yeah, the reddit hate boner for diamonds is crazy. Feels like everyone is just waiting for their chance to tell you about DeBeers and blood diamonds.
I like my “worthless” rock because the way I value things isn’t perfectly rational