We live in a crazy society where millions of human beings are dieing because they cannot scrape together a dollar to get something to eat, where parents watch their kids die because they cannot afford to give them clean water or purchase the cheap medicines necessary to keep them alive. Contrast that with the luxurious living of the owning class.
"A flawless blue diamond that fetched $7.98m (£3.93m) has set a record as the most expensive gemstone per carat bought at auction. Moussaieff Jewellers of London bought the stone from a private Asian collector at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong. Bidding for the emerald-cut 6.04 carat diamond lasted eight minutes. The stone sold for $1.32m per carat, easily beating the previous record of $926,000 per carat." (BBC News, 9 October)
Diamonds may be forever but because of capitalism millions of kids never even reach adulthood. RD
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