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Why Are Diamonds Still Considered So Valuable By Some?
Posted on 6/1/16 at 10:20 am
Posted on 6/1/16 at 10:20 am
You'd have to be hiding under a rock to have missed that one company (DeBeers) has basically monopolized the entire industry and controls practically all supply. The industry has been stigmatized for what amounts to enslaving vulnerable laborers and forcing them to work in horrid nightmarish working conditions. Thousands of people have been murdered in the name of vicious mining of diamonds that really can't be considered rare at all. There was even a movie made about it. Seems like a terrible way to symbolize the love you have for your significant other, yet people still fall for the bullshite diamond market advertising day after day, year after year. Do you walk around with a shameless pride in the diamond you wear regardless of this?
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 10:21 am to DaTroof
Because genius marketing.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 10:22 am to DaTroof
Getting married huh? Go ahead and bite the bullet and get her a real diamond mined in slave mines awash in blood.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 10:23 am to DaTroof
There are also industrial applications for diamonds that make them more valuable than other rare stones. Demand drives market value.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 10:23 am to Jim Rockford
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Because genius marketing
Sure, but the facts are out there and have been for years. How is a diamond still considered the go-to symbol for love and marriage considering the facts that are widely known at this point.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 10:23 am to DaTroof
You're the first one to figure this out. Shame on everyone else. Good on you.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 10:23 am to DaTroof
You know what, you're right.
Guess it's time for me to get rid of all my diamond chains, watches and earrings now.
Guess it's time for me to get rid of all my diamond chains, watches and earrings now.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 10:24 am to DaTroof
Status symbol
Posted on 6/1/16 at 10:24 am to DaTroof
Posted on 6/1/16 at 10:24 am to DaTroof
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How is a diamond still considered the go-to symbol for love and marriage considering the facts that are widely known at this point.
Because no one gives a shite that people are murdered and slaves mine them etc. They look nice and still have value.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 10:24 am to DaTroof
Who the h cares?
Posted on 6/1/16 at 10:24 am to DaTroof
Jews.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 10:25 am to DaTroof
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Why Are Diamonds Still Considered So Valuable By Some?
Posted on 6/1/16 at 10:25 am to DaTroof
women crave attention. the marketing for diamonds is always geared towards owning diamonds= more attention
Diamonds aren't like a boat, ATV, or house. They server absolutely no purpose whatsoever than attention whoring by women.
Diamonds aren't like a boat, ATV, or house. They server absolutely no purpose whatsoever than attention whoring by women.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 10:25 am to DaTroof
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How is a diamond still considered the go-to symbol for love and marriage considering the facts that are widely known at this point.
Because chicks love bright, shiny status symbols that they can wear on their hands 24/7.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 10:25 am to Jim Rockford
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Because genius marketing
Well, to be fair, not everyone has falling for this genius marketing. Just a certain gender who demands diamonds for every occasion.
Hell, jewelers are now even selling relatively cheap and extremely abundant industrial brown diamonds to retards who are willing to pay big money for "chocolate diamonds"
Posted on 6/1/16 at 10:27 am to Alt26
Who would want a brown diamond? It's like someone dropped a diamond in poo.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 10:28 am to Alt26
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chocolate diamonds
Saw this a while back. You have to be a complete fricking moron to fall for this!
Posted on 6/1/16 at 10:28 am to DaTroof
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The industry has been stigmatized for what amounts to enslaving vulnerable laborers and forcing them to work in horrid nightmarish working conditions. Thousands of people have been murdered in the name of vicious mining of diamonds
That's what makes them cool.
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