But still... I'd feel better about the whole thing if it were ANYONE but DeBeers. The fact that they're up there at ALL is a blatant indication of just how far their stranglehold on the diamond market has gotten, and the seeping, insidious corruption that suggests.
Surely SOMEONE else looked at those diamond resources, and said, "hey, if we could get the right investors, we could completely undercut the monopoly and rake in dough hand over fist." And they would have.
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Date: 2008-02-25 09:27 pm (UTC)But still... I'd feel better about the whole thing if it were ANYONE but DeBeers. The fact that they're up there at ALL is a blatant indication of just how far their stranglehold on the diamond market has gotten, and the seeping, insidious corruption that suggests.
Surely SOMEONE else looked at those diamond resources, and said, "hey, if we could get the right investors, we could completely undercut the monopoly and rake in dough hand over fist." And they would have.
SOMEHOW, DeBeers stopped that from happening.
Faustian.