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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Diamonds are a complete scam and always were. The mining industry behind it is abusive to boot. The sooner they crash the better

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

On growing new markets which was used to stabilize the price in the past:

The last remaining global market would be Africa, where ­diamonds have “too bad a reputation”, Ogden said. “I’m not sure they’ll be convinced that buying diamonds is good.”

Hmm, I wonder why that might be...