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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I kinda feel like the "people aren't buying enough diamonds" thing is pretty weird. Although I did buy a (antique) diamond for my wife, I just can't see the world being much worse off if the diamond jewelery market were gone.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Imo people aren't buying enough lab gems. Diamonds can come from all kinds of fucked up places, but lab gems can only come from laboratories. Like, they literally don't naturally exist on earth. They can do all kinds of cool things too, like fluoresce or change color under UV light or depending on the angle that you're viewing it at. They're vastly superior to diamonds for jewelry purposes but they're not very common so the only affordable ones tend to be cast-offs.

[–] _pete_@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Yes but if you don’t cause a bunch of poor people conflict and pain how will your wife know that you love her? /s

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