Re: Palpatine
@juice
”De Beers became very rich from a combination of clever marketing, a distinctly dodgy and abusive production pipeline (blood diamonds, anyone?), price fixing and active disinformation campaigns against their rivals (e.g. artificial diamonds).“
All true, but that’s talking about how they created their market. They may be a viciously unethical company, but how a market was created has nothing to do with the definition of economic ‘worth’ of a product or service.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
