[E. Pluribus Unum]

This is exactly like DeBeers limiting the supply of diamonds.

These objects dilute the demand for and value of their stuff, and they don't like it one bit.

[Ron C.]

"This is exactly like DeBeers limiting the supply of diamonds. "

Exactly! I remember VERY WELL, 8 or 9 years ago a little company in Florida began making TOP QUALITY diamonds - so that they would be cheaper for everyone. I too remember well thinking - THIS won't last long... and it did not.

It didn't take DeBeers more than about three months to buy that invention, pay off the inventor and his companions in business and bury the whole thing.