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[โ€“] barsquid@lemmy.world 52 points 4 months ago (1 children)

De Beers: we can remove the major differentiator by stabbing an enslaved person to death with each lab-grown diamond. This will make them valuable.

[โ€“] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 21 points 4 months ago

yeah high quality has pretty much been defined by what cannot be done in a lab to prop up de beers. Remember on how colored diamonds were a mark of low quality but once they could not stop it then suddenly its special diamond type. oooh.