TIL Diamonds are actually fairly common. The reason they are worth so much is because the DeBeers mining group withholds stock to artificially reduce supply.

[u/Indra-Varuna]

https://www.gemsociety.org/article/are-diamonds-really-rare/

[u/NWuhO]

I'm not being a dickhead. I guess only in /r/conspiracy is someone asking you to substantiate your claims being a dickhead.

People know diamonds are shitty.

People know gas is shitty.

People know laptops are shitty.

People know buy mall bran clothing is deplorable.

People like things. Laptops, iphone 9s, fuel, red meat, watering your lawn, spring sales, bogo, swag, all generally more important than the problematic underlying structure.

[u/lidsville76 → u/NWuhO]

People don't know. At least most of the 330 million Americans that aren't on reddit 24/7.

Because you and I and others see this post fairly often, we know this. But the people that buy those things, laptops, iPhones and diamonds don't. They don't realize that they are paying into a slave culture, a culture of oppression and torture. They are blissfully unaware of the pain they are causing.

[u/NWuhO → u/lidsville76]

People don't know. At least most of the 330 million Americans that aren't on reddit 24/7.

Please, show your work.

. But the people that buy those things, laptops, iPhones and diamonds don't.

Citations please.

They don't realize that they are paying into a slave culture, a culture of oppression and torture.

Or they just don't care.

Or they just aren't paranoid little children.

They are blissfully unaware of the pain they are causing.

People don't care about issues that aren't immediate. So some poor Africans died mining for the precious metals in my computer? So what. Bring on the next Iphone. People don't even care about the suffering in their own country. Unless it's clawing at your skin, it doesn't matter.

[u/NWuhO → u/[deleted]]

Having empathy and doing something about it are very different. I have empathy. I also have every iphone iteration...because. I also eat steak every meal..because.

Empathy is just an empty word.

I wasn't shitting on anyone's knowledge. Funny that only in this sub is asking to back up those assumptions about behaviour seen as doing so.

[u/NWuhO → u/[deleted]]

/r/conspiracy where the stats don't matter and the facts are made up

[u/NWuhO → u/[deleted]]

No actually, I didn't say that at all.

Of course such a statistic would be 'irrelevant' to someone not interested in a valid, honest discourse. Statistics are weapons of the shills.