Talk:Dust/@comment-4010415-20191220074541/@comment-4010415-20191221014256

Diamonds in real life are not rare at all, though. They're literally not worth the price people put on them. The diamond industry created what is known as artificial scarcity, in order to drive up prices for diamonds and gain a bigger profit. They do so by withholding the majority of the diamonds that have been mined. It's thanks to De Beers, which still controls 75-80% of the diamond industry and has a hoard of uncut diamonds locked away.

That said, I wonder if Hard-Light Dust is merely rare on the market, with Atlas hogging a lot of it to themselves for their technology.

What confuses me the most is that Gravity Dust also appears to be quite rare, and if the projected screens we've seen for TV's, Scrolls, mission boards, computers, etc are all Hard-Light Dust, then that means we have actually seen Gravity Dust far less than Hard-Light. And one would assume that mining Gravity Dust from floating islands would be more dangerous than a regular Dust mine, which would limit its presence on the market.

On top of that, the Dust shop in Volume 1 had every color of Dust except for Hard-Light and Gravity. It even had two different shades of orange Dust.