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hangonhn
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The Elite Club That Rules the Diamond World Is Sta...
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.
dbalbright
on July 29, 2019
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Which was brilliant (no pun) as it keeps up with inflation.
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"Diamonds are forever. Coincidentally that's also the term of our sub-prime loan to get one."
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IIRC the whole 2 months salary "rule" was also invented by them.