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NFTs are the diamond jewelery of the internet: extremely pricey, limited usefulness, and impossible to recoup your "investment" on second hand markets.
Diamonds at least have industrial uses. NFTs don't even have an intrinsic value.
Neither does a meter-tall Mercedes badge, but they keep selling vehicles in North America.
Diamonds at least have industrial uses.

The 'gemstone quality' diamonds that end up in jewellery have no purpose apart from looking nice.

I suppose you could crush them to get something useful.

Diamond jewelry? More like cubic zirconia ...
More like a paper saying you own a cubic zirconia even though you don't and can't actually posses it.
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He should accept the offer, it’s probably $280 more than the NFT is worth.