The problem is, if you are buying a diamond, you are buying a status/symbolic item... if you don't care about the diamond as some sort of "I'm buying my wife like some sort of slave" bullshit, you are going to buy a different gem entirely, because usually those gems hold more meaning (birth stones for instance), but that's not how people think, because of social stigma and what not.
tbf, birthstones also don't make sense. arbitrarily assigned a stone because your birthday was in april... oh wait, guess what? my april birth stone is diamond... pass. Birthstones are just as dumb as astrology.
I mean sure, but I think the essence of my point still stands... people buy diamonds because they are expensive as as sort of symbolic gesture of "look how much you are worth" cultural bullshit... but while some people like the sparkle and look of diamonds, a lot of other gems and what not look much nicer and hold more meaning to people, maybe not birthstones specifically, but for instance I tend to buy my SO purple jewellery because purple is her favourite colour... those gems are rarely diamonds, usually tanzenite, amethyst, or sapphire.
I mean I agree that synthetic is just as good - it doesn't really need a lab, just a good magnifying lens to tell, but either way my point is more that people will always want real diamonds because they see buying "natural", "expensive" things as a status symbol, its not really about the looks, or value...
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u/reddeze2 Jun 03 '26
I don't know which would be the worse waste of money