Re: Palpatine
”The difference is that DeBeers doesn't sell mass-produced electronics. Diamonds actually are rare. Apple products? Not so much.
Apple drives the prices higher than the actual value of the product, and the adoring fanbois happily feed the shareholders' jones.“
Diamonds are a lot less rare than you think; De Beers, Rio Tinto and that Russian mob have stockpiled them for years in order to create scarcity and drive prices up. Come on Jake, I’d have thought you’d have known that.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
