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Good, de beers is highly amoral business and there is no way around it. Blood diamonds and lies around them, artificially elevating diamond prices, making up th
by jajko 1y ago
Good, de beers is highly amoral business and there is no way around it. Blood diamonds and lies around them, artificially elevating diamond prices, making up the classic PR campaign that somehow inserted equation wedding=big diamond into minds of mostly US population for few generations.
When I see somebody with diamonds and check with them that they are naturals, its pretty clear what kind of person I am dealing with. To be kind and polite here, its not a nice evaluation and it ends up very precise. I let them know what's the general consensus on morality regarding those stones, its sometimes funny to watch their reactions and at least now they know something and can't anymore argue they didn't. What they do with that info is up to them.
- cultofmetatron 1y agoI wonder where these diamonds are laundered. probably some country with a comparatively high gdp that is a big time diamond exporter despite having zero diamond mines I imagine.
- cantor_S_drug 1y agoChina and Africa are destroying the DeBeers diamond cartel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7tGZzwe4mQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7tGZzwe4mQ PS Question : Who is stealing the content idea from whom? Is it possible that the article author saw this video and decided to write abou it?
- jjfoooo4 1y agoThere was also a recent article on the topic in the WSJ, with an interview from the DeBeers CEO: https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/de-beers-diamonds-price-lab-grown-468b33ab?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=ASWzDAgNW4o4cPh_1AjbLlkcwULm9rtK-Ot4CKwfqeLc1gQYD1AReI7lW_rhasC-BNo%3D&gaa_ts=68865a54&gaa_sig=tTRHhZpqMbPE67MPKhWBCZZLMh8dP-f0vCYGJR_PSn-O1LNd37P_OyqjtXpvug15vB2v-LAGRZ3MS4DVb-lylw%3D%3D https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/de-beers-diamonds-price-... In it he calls lab grown diamonds a "huge con", though doesn't really explain why...
- underlipton 1y agoWhat they're terrified of is circumstances developing to the point where certain parties are strong enough to start demanding reparations. See also: France and Nigerien uranium.
- thebrain 1y agoI do the same thing with friends who use IP TV that gets it's from a friend of a friend of a friend.