Bootlickers for billionaires calls out millennial and gen z green hypocrisy for preferring synthetic diamonds because they are made with Chinese communist coal
I remember someone posted an article a while back about this. The company cops would check workers' clothes, hair, mouths, butts, and balls for diamonds too. Imagine being so worried about profits that you hire penis inspectors to make sure miners can't keep a few itty bitty rocks.
I expect diamonds to fall off entirely in the next decade or so. Their (natural, later artificial) scarcity and (manufactured) tradition was all they ever had.
My wife's ring is moissanite, it was less than 1/10th the price of an equivalent carat diamond ring and you literally can't tell the difference. We both decided that we would rather spend that money on literally anything else. The mohs hardness is 9.5 for moissanite vs 10 for diamond which is practically the same, assuming you aren't using it as a beyblade vs a diamond ring.
Diamonds have a lot of practical value for jewelry because it's damn near impossible to damage them in everyday use, which can't be said for more brittle gemstones.
That said, synthetic diamonds will likely completely replace traditional ones except for people that want to reuse family heirlooms or something similar.
I like how they chose "oblivious" rather than something like "unaware." I wonder what vocabulary they choose to use for generations that overlap better with their subscriber base.
Unlike diamond simulants (imitations of diamond made of superficially similar non-diamond materials), synthetic diamonds are composed of the same material as naturally formed diamonds—pure carbon crystallized in an isotropic 3D form—and share identical chemical and physical properties.
Bro what. So “synthetic” diamonds are literally just diamonds. This whole time I thought it was just slapping a bunch of chemicals together to make some as durable as a diamond, but cannot be classified as a diamond because it’s some other chemical. Basically “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Diamonds” but no. It’s just diamonds.