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jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month ago

China and Africa are destroying the De Beers diamond cartel

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jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month ago
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For over a hundred years, DeBeers has dominated and controlled the global diamond trade.But today, Chinese factories are mass-producing lab-grown diamonds, w...
  • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    i can’t wait until china invents newer, better forms of diamond

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      Frankly, thats what lab grown diamonds are. None of the scarcity cost, all the same properties, and if youre not a jewelry person you’re not gonna notice the difference between a natural sparkly rock and an artificial one.

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        but those are just boring old diamonds. I mean like wedding rings out of crystallized q carbon or something

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          Wait till they make a cherry size diamonds for cheap, mount this and LED on a huge ring, bling overdose.

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      triamond

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      I want a lab grown diamond that looks like an aura quartz by default. give me fucked up rainbow minerals

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