After all everyone knows blood diamonds are green
Paying thousands of dollars for something that drops most of its value in just a few years can leave the buyer feeling cheated
How is that any different from non-synthetic diamond rings? lol
other things have use-value, sentimental value doesn’t depreciate, and they’re overpriced anyway
there’s no universe in which this is anything other than the whining of a (hopefully) dying industry
Interestingly diamonds are neat example of differences between value and price because they undoubtedly do have use value in real industry.
Coal is so bad, much worse than the natural way of obtaining useless rocks.
CW - image of colonial exploitation:
A South African miner getting x-rayed to ensure he didn’t steal from De Beers diamond company. 1954
This image alone should be reply enough to these articles.
I remember someone posted an article a while back about this. The company cops would check workers’ clothes, hair, mouths, butts, and balls for diamonds too. Imagine being so worried about profits that you hire penis inspectors to make sure miners can’t keep a few itty bitty rocks.
I expect diamonds to fall off entirely in the next decade or so. Their (natural, later artificial) scarcity and (manufactured) tradition was all they ever had.
(synthetic) Moissanite is cheaper and more sparkly anyway, if you’re going for shiny
My wife’s ring is moissanite, it was less than 1/10th the price of an equivalent carat diamond ring and you literally can’t tell the difference. We both decided that we would rather spend that money on literally anything else. The mohs hardness is 9.5 for moissanite vs 10 for diamond which is practically the same, assuming you aren’t using it as a beyblade vs a diamond ring.
Diamonds have a lot of practical value for jewelry because it’s damn near impossible to damage them in everyday use, which can’t be said for more brittle gemstones.
That said, synthetic diamonds will likely completely replace traditional ones except for people that want to reuse family heirlooms or something similar.
Gen z/ millennial getting yelled at solidarity
I like how they chose “oblivious” rather than something like “unaware.” I wonder what vocabulary they choose to use for generations that overlap better with their subscriber base.
