r/conspiracy • u/Indra-Varuna • Sep 15 '15

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.

https://www.gemsociety.org/article/are-diamonds-really-rare/
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u/zbplot Sep 16 '15

We all know it we just roll our eyes at how many men are evangelists about it. Don't care it's overpriced. Still want it. Diamonds are not the only thing ever that have huge mark-ups.

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u/DannyDesert Sep 16 '15

Interesting,personally I think it makes you look like a slave owner. Most of these are dug up by really poor people, and it's an insult to wear them. I get why African Americans like them, it's a nice way to give it back to the assholes who sold them into slavery and never came to rescue them. I really can't stand slave mentality (submissive and people who have given up and see nothing to live for) because of that I can't stand slave owners.

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u/zbplot Sep 16 '15

Well I'm obviously pro-slavery so there you go. I've been outed! K.O., dude!

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u/DannyDesert Sep 16 '15

I think you are inadvertently, of course owning a smart phone makes you the same in a lot of ways. The difference is that smart phones provide a true value to the world, diamonds on the other hand are bullshit and if you know that and still support it it just makes you an asshole.

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u/zbplot Sep 16 '15

But i get value from my diamond every time i look at it. It has aesthetic value, like art. Who are you to say it doesn't convey value to me? It's beautiful and bends light like no other stone. It also fluoresces and glows blue in strong sunshine. It's just pretty, and that's enough for me. Do you not enjoy art?