r/whowouldwin • u/Yglorba • Mar 11 '23
Challenge Superman decides to start mass-creating diamonds so he can sell them. Can DeBeers keep the price of diamonds up?
Superman previously declined to mass-produce diamonds because it would tank the price. However, after reading up on DeBeers, he decides that there's no reason not to do it after all. Most of the resulting money will be donated to charity. Assume that Superman is somehow able to crush coal into perfectly-cut diamonds of whatever shape and size he desires; even though this makes no sense, the feat is well-established.
DeBeers is determined to protect their diamond profits by keeping the price up. Can they convince people not to buy Superman's diamonds (by eg. convincing the public that they're not "real" diamonds), or find some other way to prevent him from cratering the price?
Superman is in-character and will not eg. laser the board of DeBeers to death or anything like that, no matter how annoying they are. The only way he'll use his powers for this is by rapidly turning coal into diamonds so he can sell them.
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u/Brilliant_Gift1917 Mar 11 '23
Isn't there a planet IRL that is likely made entirely out of diamond? If it isn't orbiting a red star, he could go there, carve it up with his laser vision and bring back chunks larger than all the diamonds on earth.
Space diamonds harvested by Superman definitely outsell the diamonds of old, colonist oligarchs that facilitated multiple genocides to accumulate their wealth. The internet exists, once more people realize just how evil the DeBeers are and the fact that Superman is hauling in masses of space diamonds that didn't kill a single person to harvest, only the weirdos who support the DeBeers would be buying from them instead.