The shady business of diamonds

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  • Опубліковано 22 бер 2023
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  • @HenryBelcaster
    @HenryBelcaster  Рік тому +6669

    Watch the full vid!
    ua-cam.com/video/yYRydVZhYHc/v-deo.html

  • @intergalact1659
    @intergalact1659 Рік тому +30262

    Basically only a certain amount of diamonds is let out of the mines every year keeping the prices high

  • @whatdatechnodogedoin
    @whatdatechnodogedoin Рік тому +3369

    Short answer: there's a monopoly on the diamonds. A few companies control them and only let out a handful of diamonds, just enough to make sure the market price remains high to the world. This makes them incredibly wealthy as they basically control how scarce diamonds are and how they are marketed and priced.

    • @peachandtoffee
      @peachandtoffee Рік тому +64

      u dropped this 🍷

    • @Cyancat123
      @Cyancat123 Рік тому +15

      Thank you 🙏

    • @jasrozabala4679
      @jasrozabala4679 Рік тому +62

      ​@@peachandtoffee aw hell nah why did u put the wine back inside the bottle and gave it back to him?? That's just nasty

    • @emilyrose7943
      @emilyrose7943 Рік тому

      While they exploit an entire population and keep them in abject poverty

    • @TF2bot
      @TF2bot Рік тому +5

      Thanks for saving me lots of time

  • @alasdairmorrison4675
    @alasdairmorrison4675 Рік тому +684

    Bro hit us with that trade offer 😭😭💀💀😭😭

  • @sinesiphosinworld315
    @sinesiphosinworld315 Рік тому +2357

    As a South African I like that accent 😅😅

  • @UniqueNewYork27
    @UniqueNewYork27 Рік тому +6767

    Henry explaining to his wife why he couldn't get her a ring for an anniversary:

  • @Thebreakawayexplorer
    @Thebreakawayexplorer Рік тому +3776

    The whole diamond rush thing has to be the stupidest yet the most clever things ever.
    Impressive that a lie told in the 1920s still holds its value.

    • @Hamzurger
      @Hamzurger Рік тому +10

      Are you a jeweler?

    • @lemmymaster
      @lemmymaster Рік тому +12

      Good joke

    • @stefansmiljanic1697
      @stefansmiljanic1697 Рік тому +7

      ​@Hamzurger he probably was because now he is the broke traveller

    • @paulgap7012
      @paulgap7012 Рік тому +2

      UA-cam ask me to rate your comment

    • @miagy420
      @miagy420 Рік тому +1

      So was the dutch tulip trade...

  • @oarabiletshwagong1736
    @oarabiletshwagong1736 Рік тому +121

    As a black South African I can confirm we have that accent😂

  • @hellohellomamamywhathavewehere
    @hellohellomamamywhathavewehere Рік тому +50

    I visited the big hole in Kimberly and one of the stories about how they found the diamonds made me so angry. The kids found it in the river and decided to play with it and then their mom just gave it away to random guy.

  • @Morisek_PL
    @Morisek_PL Рік тому +1698

    You've gotta love their montage. It's just phenomenal

  • @pointlesschild4943
    @pointlesschild4943 Рік тому +1011

    The 2 reasons why ppl thing diamonds are rare
    1. Minecraft
    2. Big corporations pretending like they are rare

    • @daxnnn
      @daxnnn Рік тому +21

      And also one massive company that pretty much has one of the most dominant monopolies in any industry, that’s the main reason why diamonds are so expensive, because they own all the diamond mines, so finding a diamond that isn’t on the mines premises is exceedingly more difficult as the world is becoming a concrete jungle.

    • @pointlesschild4943
      @pointlesschild4943 Рік тому +4

      @@daxnnn yea they are acting like they are rare by jacking up the prices, which I guess works

    • @robob3ar
      @robob3ar Рік тому +1

      I think gold works same way now, come to think of it, money as well.. we all pretend is worth something but it’s paper and digits on a computer

    • @Z.O.M.G
      @Z.O.M.G Рік тому +1

      They are rare, we are slowly running out of them

    • @Z.O.M.G
      @Z.O.M.G Рік тому +3

      ​@@daxnnnde beers is only 27% of the diamond market, your statement is false

  • @ferdowsurasif
    @ferdowsurasif Рік тому +3

    The production quality of this short is amazing

  • @Epic737636923
    @Epic737636923 Рік тому +97

    My mother was given a diamond engagement ring that was in the family for generations for the men to give to their wives. When my parents divorced, my mom gave the ring to my sister, although my dad and grandmother agreed it should go to me. So now my sister has a family ring she probably will never wear and I'll be stuck needing to buy some bullshit that doesn't have any actual value in the future.

    • @piotrwisniewski70
      @piotrwisniewski70 Рік тому +7

      Bro, that sucks. I hope you manage to somehow get back thay ring from your sister

    • @TheConvivialCopywriter
      @TheConvivialCopywriter Рік тому +12

      As somebody who was offered a ring to give to my fiance, buying one is better. If your partner won't settle for anything less than a diamond ring, get a new partner.

    • @HueghMungus
      @HueghMungus Рік тому +19

      ​@@piotrwisniewski70 I hope he marries his sister problem solved

    • @piotrwisniewski70
      @piotrwisniewski70 Рік тому +8

      @@HueghMungus sweet home Alabama

    • @legoeinstein4558
      @legoeinstein4558 11 місяців тому +12

      ​@@piotrwisniewski70 modern problems require Alabama solutions

  • @Noobixm-GGD
    @Noobixm-GGD Рік тому +1024

    Diamonds gotta be the biggest example of creating false demand ever

    • @SDPTheGhost
      @SDPTheGhost Рік тому +27

      I think NFT’s beat them by just a liiiiitttttle bit😂

    • @user-vn1di4oq4w
      @user-vn1di4oq4w Рік тому +3

      Beaides oil yeah

    • @Cakalank
      @Cakalank Рік тому

      ​@@user-vn1di4oq4wliterally one of the most needed resource right now. But yeah, you do you bud.

    • @benjy117
      @benjy117 Рік тому +5

      Diamonds are now created in labs. No need to find the real thing as it cost just as much as a real one. Talk about stupid.

    • @Eduardo_3334
      @Eduardo_3334 Рік тому

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      Father God i know that for ME and my family and my enemies and my neighbours you have sent your one and only beloved Son Jesus Christ to live a perfect and sinles life and to die on the cross for all of our sins and to be raised by You on the 3rd day. Father God i admit with my mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and i will let him in my heart and i admit that i have sinned and i have done wrong by you. We don't deserve You Lord but You died for us so that trough You we may get to heaven. Father Jesus we pray that you help us with our daily strugles and most importantly help us not to sin and be free of our sins and live a new life in Your name. In Jesus name amen.❤️
      Now i think that should be a great enough prayer and if you need any tips any help first go to God and Jesus and ask them for directions then either come here and ask me to help you or go on youtube and search david lynn i think is his name hes a very wise and powerful sharer of the gospel even better if you have tik tok go search davidpurther he in my opinion is a very strong person in God and to be completely honest he was the one that saved me him and some more if you want more accounts like brother David ask me and if i will see your request ill try my best to answer
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  • @StoodSta1
    @StoodSta1 Рік тому +632

    Bro just made every wife in the world question their marriage 💀

    • @yuyah7413
      @yuyah7413 Рік тому +30

      you base your marriage on a material? damn

    • @toniok.4726
      @toniok.4726 Рік тому

      @@yuyah7413 people are dull

    • @SirAxel.
      @SirAxel. Рік тому +13

      @@yuyah7413 no, thats what some women do

    • @windagar1552
      @windagar1552 Рік тому +4

      @@yuyah7413 its a joke🤦‍♂️

    • @LiamGamer
      @LiamGamer Рік тому +2

      ​@@SirAxel. But he did base it

  • @Wahmageddon
    @Wahmageddon Рік тому +38

    The first time I've seen a shorts UA-camr not do a part 2, and instead did a full video about it.
    You sir, are doing what we all want to see.

    • @mr-not-so-creative
      @mr-not-so-creative Рік тому +1

      No just give the info in the short i already know it so it does not matter much but it can get annoying

    • @naher.8520
      @naher.8520 Рік тому +2

      No he just did a big add for his video and wasted our time

    • @lowqanimations
      @lowqanimations 6 місяців тому

      ​@@naher.8520buddy if you truly valued your time you won't scrolling on a UA-cam Short😂😂

  • @hyperat8146
    @hyperat8146 Рік тому +3

    Basically ever since the Netherite update in 1.20, Diamonds weren't the same again.

  • @kaseywahl
    @kaseywahl Рік тому +553

    My wife is South African. When I proposed to her, she explicitly didn't want a diamond in her ring because of this history.

    • @lieamlieamx4726
      @lieamlieamx4726 Рік тому +8

      Me south Africa

    • @bloo_si
      @bloo_si Рік тому +17

      that’s w you save money by not having to get a diamond ring 🤣

    • @me6679
      @me6679 Рік тому +1

      Right

    • @wwggc
      @wwggc Рік тому

      @@bloo_si What I don't understand what you said at all.

    • @IlfordRules16
      @IlfordRules16 Рік тому +1

      What would happen if you were British?

  • @A-G-F-
    @A-G-F- Рік тому +1932

    If real life had a "Disney Villian", Cecil Rhodes would be that guy.

    • @Evan-cv2ws
      @Evan-cv2ws Рік тому +16

      Well I think he was a stand up guy

    • @A-G-F-
      @A-G-F- Рік тому +41

      @@Evan-cv2ws
      If making an Etnostate and being one of the main proponents of the Apartheid its being a "stand up guy" then sure it is

    • @Evan-cv2ws
      @Evan-cv2ws Рік тому +34

      @@A-G-F- I didn't say he was a great guy, but he had legs!

    • @davebob9796
      @davebob9796 Рік тому

      @@Evan-cv2ws 😂😂

    • @mannhugh359
      @mannhugh359 Рік тому +3

      Rhodesians never die

  • @Swiss-
    @Swiss- 3 місяці тому +1

    Basically someone’s gatekeeping all of them

  • @Zackaria_sMax
    @Zackaria_sMax Рік тому +172

    They're rare NOW because De Beers locks 99% of the world's diamonds in a vault to create artificial scarcity. So they can sell the 1% of diamonds they put into circulation for much more than they're actually worth

    • @stansman5461
      @stansman5461 Рік тому +30

      That's no longer true, like at all. De Beers monopoly no longer exists. Now it's expensive because of
      1. Social expectations to be expensive
      2. High demand in growing economies (like India and China)
      3. Low production since most of the easy to mine areas have run out.

    • @FarangDoingThaiStuff
      @FarangDoingThaiStuff Рік тому +6

      ​@@stansman5461 don't waste your breath, it's easier for them to believe it's all a conspiracy

    • @FarangDoingThaiStuff
      @FarangDoingThaiStuff Рік тому

      DeBeers controls 20% of the diamond market these days. Not 90 to 100% like it used to be

    • @us7wqtrnek7uu
      @us7wqtrnek7uu Рік тому

      De beers,de rothschild,de. oppenhiemers is all same crap & thats the reason why their was apatheid in sa & sprinkle some gold there

    • @xylophone_8888
      @xylophone_8888 Рік тому +3

      ​@@FarangDoingThaiStuff diamonds are still just shiny rocks that no one would care about if they weren't hyped up
      i don't see any insane demand for shiny sea polished glass even though it's rare and honestly way prettier than diamonds

  • @crypt6655
    @crypt6655 Рік тому +382

    I suddenly want to have a diamond just so I can feel the death and blood that it took for one stone

  • @jahnaviization
    @jahnaviization Рік тому

    I have give kudos to the animation. The characters are so expressive and the story board is concise.

  • @IamkingofCOD15
    @IamkingofCOD15 11 місяців тому +4

    Bro gave an American voice for the south african 💀

  • @HorizonForeverYT
    @HorizonForeverYT Рік тому +616

    NAH BRO THAT TRADE OFFER MEME 💀💀💀

  • @pingozingo
    @pingozingo Рік тому +144

    Animators went off on this one, he even has the rim light glow on him from the background!!

  • @kifftastic4
    @kifftastic4 Рік тому +1

    "This is a diamond"
    Y O U DIDN'T HAVE TO CUT ME OFF

  • @__Random__011
    @__Random__011 10 місяців тому

    They be still gangsta until they discovered Uranium

  • @michiko7726
    @michiko7726 Рік тому +154

    Not both the Dravidian and Rhodes having Anya's face for a split second💀🔪

  • @nakulsprakash1640
    @nakulsprakash1640 Рік тому +731

    The Dravidians speaking in Raj Koothrapalli English in 800 B.C. sounds authentic af.

    • @Azazel-zo1gx
      @Azazel-zo1gx Рік тому +7

      Uncle Sam only understands such logic 😂

    • @mspaint93
      @mspaint93 Рік тому +6

      I mean, if anyone in 800BC somehow spoke perfect modern English, it's gonna Indians

    • @SpectreKritical
      @SpectreKritical Рік тому

      Its not dravidians

    • @ishankapoor
      @ishankapoor Рік тому +1

      @@SpectreKritical then you don't even know what dravidian means

    • @kbee225
      @kbee225 11 місяців тому

      The dating is weird. I don't think there's any archeological evidence of diamond trade tracing back to 800 BC in south India.

  • @Yukonin
    @Yukonin Рік тому +1

    I love the Anya face in the middle of the vid

  • @Narerial
    @Narerial Рік тому +1

    "This... isadiamond"

  • @theicecreamninja101
    @theicecreamninja101 Рік тому +408

    Basically they hold on to all the diamonds and trick people in marketing thinking they’re valuable
    Edit:not to be cringe BUT 100 LIKES

  • @FlyingGoku
    @FlyingGoku Рік тому +709

    I thought he was gonna say "Diamonds were invented on accident" 💀💀💀

  • @mattparish4451
    @mattparish4451 Рік тому +2

    Technically, nothing is "valuable". Value is subjective. Just because something is expensive, doesn't mean it is valuable. Prices are all bs too, it's just the price that we put on things based on what they cost to make and how to profit off of them. It's not a bad thing, I'm grateful for society. The people that complain about everything are the people that have nothing of meaning going on in their lives.

  • @pewpew213
    @pewpew213 7 місяців тому

    In other planets there are raining diamonds, while earth is the only planet in the milky way with trees

  • @hawaiianisles7022
    @hawaiianisles7022 Рік тому +415

    I figured diamonds weren't worth much when the pawn shop only paid me the gold value on a diamond ring.
    Glad I'm not a bling bling kind of guy.

    • @3G2J
      @3G2J Рік тому +11

      A diamond is worth its weight in gold

    • @guitarkid9623
      @guitarkid9623 Рік тому +9

      Not to mention its a pawn shop. They will save any penny they can.

    • @enderkatze6129
      @enderkatze6129 Рік тому +2

      You *May* Not have actually Had a Diamond Ring. Could've been a Fake Diamond

    • @xylophone_8888
      @xylophone_8888 Рік тому +1

      ​@@enderkatze6129 doesn't matter anyways in terms of looks

    • @enderkatze6129
      @enderkatze6129 Рік тому

      @@xylophone_8888 zirconium does Lack some of the finer Details/facettes that actual Carbon diamonds have

  • @wegas308
    @wegas308 Рік тому +63

    More of these shorts please! It is interesting, educating and fun

  • @degariuslozak2169
    @degariuslozak2169 9 місяців тому +1

    Living in South Africa,I've learnt all about this in history

  • @ibaadoola3555
    @ibaadoola3555 Рік тому +1

    "WHAD ISH DHISH"
    Most famous Indian line

  • @isaacperez2576
    @isaacperez2576 Рік тому +35

    this was the video that made me find out he makes videos longer than a minute

  • @palesamagonare
    @palesamagonare Рік тому +31

    As a South African, thats not how we sound but it was sure hilarious 😂😂

    • @ddd-ze8yh
      @ddd-ze8yh Рік тому +3

      No shit it was in 1869

    • @jrr6947
      @jrr6947 Рік тому +4

      Also...farmers are suddenly KhoiSan

    • @sk1dzzz608
      @sk1dzzz608 Рік тому +1

      We sound nothing like that

    • @BilzyDaFF
      @BilzyDaFF Рік тому

      Thato Mokoena

    • @Jernofenz
      @Jernofenz Рік тому +2

      As a dravidian that too isn't how we sound but it was hilarious 😂😂

  • @tiny9720
    @tiny9720 Рік тому

    Yesterday, I was literally talking about how they aren't rare anymore

  • @ConferTf2
    @ConferTf2 Рік тому +1

    Bro looks kinda like Jonah in superstore

  • @austin_bennett
    @austin_bennett Рік тому +8

    Artificial scarcity mixed with an extremely popular ad campaign made diamonds more expensive than they really need to be

  • @lazarusthibodeaux
    @lazarusthibodeaux Рік тому +41

    Diamonds can be made in a lab.
    They are literally mass produceable.

    • @lesterstone8595
      @lesterstone8595 Рік тому +10

      Diamonds can also be made from cremation ashes. When granny dies, you can wear her in your wedding ring. sweet/creepy

    • @FarangDoingThaiStuff
      @FarangDoingThaiStuff Рік тому +1

      But synthetics hold no value, because they're not a precious commodity.

    • @Egilhelmson
      @Egilhelmson Рік тому +4

      @@FarangDoingThaiStuff Potentially, they hold value because one could make synthetic diamonds that were flawed enough to be indistinguishable from natural diamonds, but I would expect working commercial fusion (which was fifty years away in the 1960s and is only thirty years away, now), first. Plus, they are not EASY to make in a lab.

    • @FarangDoingThaiStuff
      @FarangDoingThaiStuff Рік тому

      @@Egilhelmson CVDs (synthetics made using chemical vapor deposition) are getting better and better, and easier to produce. Shady people can get away with "salting" parcels of small melee with synthetics, but a lab report from GIA or another reputable gem lab will tell you whether it's synthetic or not. Expensive stones must be submitted to these labs for this reason. Anyway, look at how much synthetic moissanite used to cost vs now. Synthetics are not an investment. That's all there is to it. Buy a natural sapphire if you don't like diamonds lol.

  • @sharveshasreerajsreemurugan
    @sharveshasreerajsreemurugan 3 місяці тому +1

    The Dravidians accent is something rare..

  • @tanmaybrahmachari9254
    @tanmaybrahmachari9254 Рік тому +1

    "This is a diamond!"
    Oh...really!?!

  • @voicelessscooby
    @voicelessscooby Рік тому +3

    Fun Fact: Sapphires are not only more rare than diamonds, but they also can come in more colors than just blue. (Rubies are also literally just red sapphires)

    • @xylophone_8888
      @xylophone_8888 Рік тому

      this
      there's precious and semi precious stones in all possible colors from black to pink but for some reason people prefer something that just looks like very clear ice lol

  • @heywoodyablom
    @heywoodyablom Рік тому +116

    Bro, I really like the references you put in those vids, that Civilization ref is bombastic haha

  • @I_Like_Turtles441
    @I_Like_Turtles441 Рік тому +1

    The quantity is manipulated to keep its value high.

  • @Zepsty
    @Zepsty Рік тому +1

    they are not rocks they are minerals

  • @AWBepi
    @AWBepi Рік тому +7

    I visited south africa once and the first thing my hosts told me is that if I find a diamond on the ground to leave it there. Also some years ago there was a. Shipwreck on the skeleton coast of Namibia, in order to excavate, the entire site was surrounded by cameras and they watched each of the archeologists to make sure they didn't take any diamonds because as far as you could see the earth was littered in diamonds.

    • @hellohellomamamywhathavewehere
      @hellohellomamamywhathavewehere Рік тому +2

      As someone who lives in Southern Africa I would like to know where in Southern Africa you visited that the land was scattered in diamonds.
      For personal reasons....

  • @mr.humangreg
    @mr.humangreg Рік тому

    Bro this channel is sometimes the reason I could slowly start liking social studies tbh

  • @dennislusung3464
    @dennislusung3464 Рік тому +3

    "what is this" 😂😂😂

  • @Klangvold1
    @Klangvold1 Рік тому +6

    In college, public speaking class, a girls final speech is on how diamonds are not worth anything & cause so much pain & turmoil for the miners! How not to support the diamond trade at all. And only actual precious gems like, white turquoise and many others are actually valuable. So her point was definitely DO NOT ever buy diamonds, buy precious gems that are truly limited & precious & minded sustainable instead

    • @Egilhelmson
      @Egilhelmson Рік тому

      She should have been informed that a large part of the value of famous gems is the blood and misery involved in their history. Then have her tortured to death for all diamonds :-)
      If they are limited, how are they sustainable? It might be limited like He4 nuclei (most produced in the Big Bang, and about 10% of the hydrogen atoms), but that doesn’t make Helium4 a rare commodity.

  • @stefanielopez4994
    @stefanielopez4994 Рік тому +1

    And that’s how the diamond rush started

  • @audible_
    @audible_ Рік тому

    Why you
    Teaching me more history that my
    History class

  • @fukumean44
    @fukumean44 Рік тому +4

    As an Indian, that accent is not only accurate for uncles but also hilarious 😂. Good shit

    • @arta.xshaca
      @arta.xshaca Рік тому +3

      Even 3000 year old pals are "uncles", eh! Yes brother, you are a certified Indian.

    • @RojaJaneman
      @RojaJaneman Рік тому +1

      #Bhikharitude is strong with this one

  • @DoggoBro1
    @DoggoBro1 Рік тому +24

    Whoa, your videos are getting higher quality!! Love it

  • @spray_cheese
    @spray_cheese Рік тому +1

    I know the day I purchase a diamond this monopoly is gonna be dismantled and it’ll be worthless

  • @OfflineGSC
    @OfflineGSC Місяць тому

    Guess what, the next video in my feed is AstroKobi talking about a diamond core planet

  • @DuckyinVR
    @DuckyinVR Рік тому +7

    They are very expensive today because the diamond CEOs artificially inflated price.

  • @happypappy5808
    @happypappy5808 Рік тому +13

    😆excellent. True. Literally anything can be made into a diamond. Anything.

    • @tonyvigil7918
      @tonyvigil7918 Рік тому +1

      Only things made out of Carbon though.

    • @happypappy5808
      @happypappy5808 Рік тому +3

      @@tonyvigil7918 nearly everything on planet earth contains carbon.

    • @rollinia7770
      @rollinia7770 Рік тому +5

      We are made of Carbon and it crazy people making human ashes turning into diamonds.

    • @happypappy5808
      @happypappy5808 Рік тому

      @@rollinia7770 true.
      insane-stupid. Nearly sacrilegious.

  • @monke1551
    @monke1551 Рік тому

    Man looks like a certain artist

  • @BlizRealz
    @BlizRealz 11 місяців тому +1

    The reason they are so rare is because a company owns almost 85% of the diamonds and they sell a limited amount every year.

  • @swifty255wastaken
    @swifty255wastaken Рік тому +3

    “This, is a Diamond”-you didn’t have to cut me off!!

  • @okaberintaro2411
    @okaberintaro2411 Рік тому +4

    Diamonds are useful for cutting metals and other things. Counterintuitively, we value things like copper, iron, plants, farming, animals, much more than gold or silver despite them being priced lower. In-fact, in a way, cheap things are much more valuable than expensive things in many ways.

  • @Haakons3n
    @Haakons3n 6 місяців тому +1

    The reason people think they are valuable is because of one company witch i dont remember the name of it. They have 85% of diamonds but they only sell like 0,1 of them so its value is so much

  • @pixlyJolt
    @pixlyJolt Рік тому

    Basically how rare Minecraft diamonds used to be vs how rare they are now

  • @Sea_Captain
    @Sea_Captain Рік тому +3

    As an Indian I can confirm we talk like this daily

  • @DashcamRoblox
    @DashcamRoblox Рік тому +8

    The trade offer made me fly

  • @foxlolpro4625
    @foxlolpro4625 8 місяців тому

    I watched this and the next short was an ad about diamonds

  • @poopooslayer5069
    @poopooslayer5069 Рік тому

    Bro said they’re not worth anything 🥶

  • @pergarette7680
    @pergarette7680 Рік тому +5

    As a South African myself, I find this as everyday information

    • @AnonymousAdolf
      @AnonymousAdolf Рік тому +1

      Tell me about it.. These oaks in the other countries think we live in the stone age 😂

  • @maxsievers8251
    @maxsievers8251 Рік тому +8

    The animation got it wrong. The people in South Africa look like Dutch people.

    • @royalrice5191
      @royalrice5191 Рік тому

      Wouldn’t the South Africans in the mines historically be black?

    • @maxsievers8251
      @maxsievers8251 Рік тому +4

      @Royal Rice I don't know about the mine workers. Many black people came in the country after it flourished. A South African farmer was definitely an Afrikaner before the race war. And in the animation it's about a farmer.

    • @Heligoland360
      @Heligoland360 Рік тому +1

      Apparently the man who originally discovered it was a mixed race shepherd, who sold it to a Boer (Dutch) farmer.

  • @javiermaldonado7120
    @javiermaldonado7120 Рік тому

    Basically because there’s mostly just one company that sells diamonds, creating a monopoly, they can afford to only send out a specific amount each year. If more companies had diamonds this wouldn’t be able to work because of the competition

  • @JackalSniperSnipez
    @JackalSniperSnipez Рік тому

    "Why do people think they're so rare?"
    Diamond company: "they are"

  • @deis.w
    @deis.w Рік тому +50

    My (now) wife was sensible enough to ask for lab diamond. She actually asked for moissanite at first and to save the money to buy our home.

    • @JeffintheD
      @JeffintheD Рік тому +2

      Protect her at all costs.

    • @autumndjinn9622
      @autumndjinn9622 Рік тому +1

      Congratulations on getting an Amazing Intelligent woman. You struck Diamond 💎.

  • @malk2636
    @malk2636 Рік тому +4

    Proof that the cameraman can go back in time

    • @Speed-TV
      @Speed-TV Рік тому +1

      it's not live action so this overused joke is nullified

  • @TheTherapist_
    @TheTherapist_ Рік тому

    i learnt this from a song.
    so basically a company hid alot of diamonds making diamonds rare.

  • @Linkedln
    @Linkedln 10 місяців тому

    that one kid in the family called colonel☠️😭

  • @Squishy-Balls
    @Squishy-Balls Рік тому

    I watched a whole short just to get told to "watch the whole vid"

  • @woodyyyyyy9820
    @woodyyyyyy9820 Рік тому +6

    generally in history you know its over when a eurapean shows up

    • @jamessurtees
      @jamessurtees Місяць тому +1

      Cecil Rhodes was actually born in the town I live in, it's so funny the council renaming streets and whatnot to cover up his history.

  • @ItsAkela_
    @ItsAkela_ Рік тому +10

    There as good as clear quartz, just get sapphires. They look nicer and you can get any shade from midnight to clear

  • @arcticwolfie8838
    @arcticwolfie8838 Рік тому

    Nothing really costs a cent in Earth until trading with money is invented

  • @RandomShorts7861
    @RandomShorts7861 Рік тому +1

    The amount of diamonds let out each year from the mines are limited to keep the prices high

  • @damanesgames9564
    @damanesgames9564 Рік тому +3

    Its because the biggest diamond firm that owns like 85% of diamond lets out only a bit each year

    • @stansman5461
      @stansman5461 Рік тому

      Think your data might be a bit outdated. Check the monopolies again.

  • @Lukehendo
    @Lukehendo Рік тому +4

    But he’s absolutely right, the diamond trade is a completely made up scarcity and we shouldn’t support it

    • @FarangDoingThaiStuff
      @FarangDoingThaiStuff Рік тому

      Then why do companies spend hundreds of millions looking for new diamond sources? Scarcity is inflated but the fact is, it's extremely difficult to find a gem quality diamond in the earth. Takes tons of research and time.

  • @Mazhypic
    @Mazhypic Рік тому

    I miss the times when there were actual answears to the questions askes in the video

  • @meow-ic6gz
    @meow-ic6gz 10 місяців тому

    you're saying it as if we can find diamonds in the road 😂

  • @bleepbloop8449
    @bleepbloop8449 Рік тому +4

    your editing is becoming insane! Great video :)

  • @cantonwilliams1565
    @cantonwilliams1565 Рік тому +4

    It’s the way he just think black people talk like that

    • @cawnxr
      @cawnxr Рік тому

      i was gonna say that 💀 especially because he’s supposed to be african he definitely wouldn’t have that accent

  • @PINYO1975
    @PINYO1975 8 місяців тому

    Imagine you find diamonds, but they are actually glass

  • @fnaflucy8211
    @fnaflucy8211 Рік тому +1

    Minecraft YTbers: and I took that personally

  • @lukefurno1151
    @lukefurno1151 Рік тому +5

    Moral of the story, when it comes time too buy a wedding ring go with literally anything else then a diamond

  • @thielen5606
    @thielen5606 Рік тому +6

    Summary: the rationed the amount of diamonds they released every year and still do and also make it seem like a key part of marriage and a necessity if your partner really loves you

  • @shmeidog3573
    @shmeidog3573 Рік тому +1

    Im actually somehow rleated to cecil rhodes, so its nice to hear about him, thanks!

  • @TheIdiotTries
    @TheIdiotTries Рік тому

    Its not the diamond that rare, but the clarity. Clear diamonds like a VVS2 is considered a rarity in the diamond world.

  • @XCryxus
    @XCryxus Рік тому +4

    minecraft done me dirty