Have you ever tried to sell a diamond?
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Have you ever tried to sell a diamond?
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#2note that this article is from the 1980s, not recent (though still accurate)
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#4Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1110283
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#5note that this article is from the 1980s, not recent (though still accurate)
The value in this article is not in its particular facts. The real value comes from realizing that such corporate societal manipulation happens all the time to this day.
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#6This article appears to be an excerpt from a longer book on the subject: Epstein, Edward Jay (1982). "THE DIAMOND INVENTION"
The author has a website, http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/diamond/prologue.htm with what appears to be the complete contents of the book. I don't know if he's updated it since 1982.
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#7Interesting, but too long for me to read right now. Does anyone know why De Beers seems to be exempt from U.S. anti-trust laws?
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#8Interesting, but too long for me to read right now. Does anyone know why De Beers seems to be exempt from U.S. anti-trust laws?
They aren't a US company.
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#9Pop history of the diamond trade.
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#10Fun fact: If you get a diamond nice and hot (blow torches work great) and then drop it into some pure oxygen, it will burn like the hunk of charcoal it is.