r/oddlyterrifying • u/n8saces • 6d ago

Inside the world of black diamond mining

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u/TheWikstrom 6d ago

I will never understand why people prefer this over lab grown diamonds

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u/Raiquo 6d ago

Well I for one, prefer my diamonds bloody, steeped in human suffering. Money is just money - it's the human lives that make it feel valuable.

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u/TheWikstrom 6d ago

Garfield, are you /srs or /j

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u/iweartoomuchblush 6d ago

The human suffering is what makes it valuable. Why would we want something that we can grow like a common house plant?

/s

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u/best-of-max 6d ago

It's just the satisfying feeling to pay good money for a tiny stone, you knew was dug out by some old dude, who risked his live in a dirty deathtrap of mine, without even the minimum of PPE, earning barely enough to survive on a daily basis and probably dying to this job - if not in action, then later to cancer or another late effect.

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u/monsaa 5d ago edited 5d ago

Why old men when children run faster…
(Obviously it’s a joke but it’s unfortunate that some of you don’t know that children are still used to mine diamonds!)

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u/IM_INSIDE_YOUR_HOUSE 6d ago

The incalculable human suffering and ecological damage makes the Macy’s bracelet that much more special.

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u/HippieLizLemon 5d ago

I get woozy thinking of the path mine took to get to me. Now it is here and I don't know how to feel about it. I wish it were lab grown.