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Moissanite is... also lab grown?
Lab grown is not a bad thing.
I agree, I’m just noting it isn’t a distinction between the two.
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#22Go with moisonnaite, not lab grown diamonds!
+1 for moissanite!
I went with moissanite for my engagement ring. A lab grown diamond with equivalent specs was $13000 (AUD). The moissanite was $700 (AUD) which was in line with other international jewellery vendors' prices. You can get much cheaper prices than what we paid but we were happy to go through the jeweller's preferred vendor rather than sourcing it ourselves.
I had considered other gems like emerald, sapphire, etc. but I'm rough on my hands and wanted something really tough.
I felt a bit silly that I wanted a ring at all, tbh. Just not getting one is an option we considered. I like shiny things and don't own any other jewellery. That's my excuse and I'm running with it!
I really love it. It's so dazzling it distracts me sometimes when the light plays on it. I'm a bit embarrassed when people think it's a diamond; we've got a million other things we'd spend tens of thousands of dollars on that's not a shiny rock.
Anyway, moissanite is great.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
How come?
Shinier than diamonds, for one. Much cheaper than even lab grown diamonds, for two. Almost as hard, and generally even fewer deficits than diamonds (except lab ones which are basically deficit free, just like moissinite).
It's also a lattice of Carbon and Silicon, a symbolic reflection of our modern cyborg world.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Shinier than diamonds, for one. Much cheaper than even lab grown diamonds, for two. Almost as hard, and generally even fewer deficits than diamonds (except lab ones which are basically deficit free, just like moissinite).
It's also a lattice of Carbon and Silicon, a symbolic reflection of our modern cyborg world.
Oooh, I like this.
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#25Good.
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#26Hot take: it's not going to stop at diamonds. Marriage is expensive. Weddings are expensive. Honestly, if you compare it to the other really expensive things that happen around the same stage of life... buying a home, having children... Unless I'm from a highly religious family(also in decline), I can tell you easily which one I'd call pass on. https://ifstudies.org/blog/1-in-3-a-record-share-of-young-ad...
Room temperature take:
Weddings are expensive. Marriage costs almost nothing.
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#27Hot take: it's not going to stop at diamonds. Marriage is expensive. Weddings are expensive. Honestly, if you compare it to the other really expensive things that happen around the same stage of life... buying a home, having children... Unless I'm from a highly religious family(also in decline), I can tell you easily which one I'd call pass on. https://ifstudies.org/blog/1-in-3-a-record-share-of-young-ad...
Room temperature take: Weddings are expensive. Marriage costs almost nothing.
Divorces have a reputation money wise as well. ;)
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#28Hot take: it's not going to stop at diamonds. Marriage is expensive. Weddings are expensive. Honestly, if you compare it to the other really expensive things that happen around the same stage of life... buying a home, having children... Unless I'm from a highly religious family(also in decline), I can tell you easily which one I'd call pass on. https://ifstudies.org/blog/1-in-3-a-record-share-of-young-ad...
Room temperature take: Weddings are expensive. Marriage costs almost nothing.
Depends: marriage can be expensive for a rich asshole marrying a piece of crap who's terrible at spending someone else's money.
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This limits the supply, but we also must remember that the reason there's enough demand to justify the diamond industry to do this kind of shady stuff is due to marketing. I seriously doubt that diamonds, and especially natural diamonds, would be as popular as they are without the marketing, since the lab-grown ones are indistinguishable in all but price, if one wants one. Famously of course, marketing is responsible…
> I seriously doubt that diamonds, and especially natural diamonds, would be as popular as they are without the marketing, since the lab-grown ones are indistinguishable in all but price, if one wants one. Price is often the point. Diamonds are conspicuous wealth, an easy way to demonstrate "I'm better than you because my diamond is bigger/clearer/natural" for people who think like that.
> iamonds are conspicuous wealth
[veblen good](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good).
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#30I wonder how much effect feminism had on this.