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Re:The Elite Club That Rules the Diamond World Is Starting t... by hangonhn on Monday July 29, 2019 @02:33PM (#20557785)
The demand for diamond was entirely driven by their very successful marketing campaign: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/ho...

IIRC the whole 2 months salary "rule" was also invented by them.

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Re:The Elite Club That Rules the Diamond World Is Starting t... by dbalbright on Monday July 29, 2019 @03:12PM (#20558244)
Which was brilliant (no pun) as it keeps up with inflation.
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Re:The Elite Club That Rules the Diamond World Is Starting t... by astrodust on Monday July 29, 2019 @06:07PM (#20559974)
"Diamonds are forever. Coincidentally that's also the term of our sub-prime loan to get one."
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Re:The Elite Club That Rules the Diamond World Is Starting t... by ralusek on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @12:25AM (#20562130)
Keeps up with wages
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