Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever

Post by treeman79 » Tue, May 04, 2021, 10:49 PM UTC

washadjeffmad wrote: post #406

joeblau wrote: post #65

Random diamond story! As a freshman in college, I took a geology class and our teacher asked all of the women in our class to raise their hand if they would rather have natural or human-made diamonds. Most of the women (over 80%) raised their hands for natural. The reasons they gave all seemed to tie back to branding and natural diamonds being “real.” Then our teacher gave another analogy. He asked if people would ra…

I went through this not that many years ago buying a ring for my SO. My biggest mistake was including her in the decision. She described what she wanted exactly– nothing gaudy or ostentatious, just a singular, tasteful stone on a plain band. Couldn't be simpler, could it? Finding stones that met her criteria was easy. Some were natural diamonds, some lab grown, many moissanite. From the outset, she said the meaning o…

Post by conductr » Tue, May 04, 2021, 11:09 PM UTC

joeblau wrote: post #65

Random diamond story! As a freshman in college, I took a geology class and our teacher asked all of the women in our class to raise their hand if they would rather have natural or human-made diamonds. Most of the women (over 80%) raised their hands for natural. The reasons they gave all seemed to tie back to branding and natural diamonds being “real.” Then our teacher gave another analogy. He asked if people would ra…

Post by throwaway_isms » Tue, May 04, 2021, 11:30 PM UTC

make3 wrote: post #617

throwaway_isms wrote: post #539

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>While the ring contains a mined diamond, it has quite a bit of sentimental value If I said it once, I have said it a million times, if your SO insists on a diamond from the ground as opposed to a lab, say fine, but I am getting my shots flying to Africa and will mine it myself. It won't matter if you bring back a opaque brown rock, with 0 marketing your SO would wear it with pride and most others would be jealous wh…

for most people what you describe is even more expensive and impractical than buying a mined diamond

Post by WrtCdEvrydy » Tue, May 04, 2021, 11:35 PM UTC

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WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #494

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These were the most common before no-fault divorce became the common cause so they used to come from court filings. In these days, some of them come from marriage counseling statistics undertaken during divorce (some states require it before disolving a marriage). There is some specific research from small N groups where N=52 for example ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4012696/ )

Oh! Money, Children and Infidelity are factors, instead of studies or a book. I think I was confused because the words were capitalized. Thanks for the link as well, I found it interesting. :-)

Post by setr » Tue, May 04, 2021, 11:46 PM UTC

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This is partly a myth. More important was the non legal enforcement of engagements. Many couples in the past would start to have sex when engaged. If the engagement is not legally secure, the diamond basically serves as signal. That why 3-month salary make sense. If I buy a 3-month salary worth diamond I'm probably not gone leave you after a month. Its an easily portable high value item that also serves as signaling…

> Its an easily portable high value item that also serves as signaling for the person wearing it. It makes more sense then livestock in the modern world. Jewelry is not a great value store, unless you're fine with selling it at a significant loss. Diamonds specially, unless they're rare, seem to magically lose a lot of its value as soon as they print your receipt. To be honest, I find the whole love-engagement-sex-we…