Absolutely. What I find so disgusting is that a lot the gems being sold at a hundred times their true value is that they are "blood diamonds", produced by the victims brutal slave labor.

It's also bitterly ironic that human technology can now produce diamonds that are indistinguishable form the natural product.

 

 

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Diamonds, or at least low quality ones, are actually pretty common.  What happens is the big diamond companies keep a ton in reserve and limit the supply on purpose to keep the prices up.  From what I've heard, there's enough of them in existance that everyone in the US could have a handful or so of them.