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i never understood why a mined diamond has a bigger value than an artificially made one when the only difference is the suffering of the workers. ppl who like diamonds are stupid.
The first thing DeBeers tried was "artificial diamonds have imperfections, you want a real rock that's selected to be as perfect as possible". Then the artificial industry made diamonds so good that you could only tell the difference from the lack of imperfections. Then DeBeers marketing changed to "it's too perfect, you want something that has the small imperfections of a natural process".
The suffering is the point
Yup. It someone wasn't killed for it, it's less valuable.
Or dismembered by militia for not working fast enough
There is this idea that seems to be really pervasive that natural is always better. And it's not true so often. A common example I like to give is that natural almond extract contains cyanide and artificial almond extract does not. No, it isn't enough cyanide to kill you, but I would say no cyanide is better than some cyanide.
And a lot of those "natural is always better" people would happily take fentanyl over willow bark if they were in agony.
I think a better analogy would be oxycodone or hydromorphone over opium but your point stands
Another aspect of this is that "natural" things like supplements are not usually "naturally occurring" but rather highly refined.
Snake venom is natural 😊
Indeed. As is arsenic. You can even find it in water supplies (especially in the U.S., where there are "acceptable" levels).
Same reason diamonds are valued in the first place. Marketing campaigns tricking the gullible majority and most of the rest conforming to not stand out and cause issues for themselves.
Diamonds do make sense as gemstones because of their hardness. They'll stay scratch free for life. But ya, the diamond industry is garbage.
Maybe, but realistically, most jewelry will have them inlaid in gold anyway, which is not hard at all. So you need to take care not to scratch it regardless of what gem is used.
Also, many other gems are harder then steel which is about the hardest thing your jewelry would come into contact with.
So I would say the benefit is minor.
They're too common to be truly valuable, though, and that's before factoring in that you can just make them now.
For a long time (and maybe still currently I don't know) they weren't able to make diamonds bigger like people want. So for a small diamond it might not make any sense, but there was a point where ones we made weren't meeting what people wanted.
synthetic diamond sizes keep getting bigger, but it is much harder to make them I think
That would be 1.7 vs 181 cm^3^
Well, if they're getting that big, that's big enough for a lot of jewelry now.
Yes, I would imagine that size would be comically large for like a ring or something