This has bugged me for a while. We can make the damned things and just because the naturally formed ones are sat beneath the Earth's crust for a while, they are worth money. I can understand why gold was worth so much in past ages given the labour required to produce and purify it but these days with diamonds... really?
You're always told that you're skimping unless you buy your fiancée or wife a diamond ring. Is this purely because of DeBeers marketing? It seems to me that there should be plenty of diamonds around the world given frequent tectonic activity. You can even get yourself transformed into a diamond under lab conditions when you die FFS. There is lots of carbon in the world!
Is this the greatest ripoff in modern society or am I just being cynical?
You're always told that you're skimping unless you buy your fiancée or wife a diamond ring. Is this purely because of DeBeers marketing? It seems to me that there should be plenty of diamonds around the world given frequent tectonic activity. You can even get yourself transformed into a diamond under lab conditions when you die FFS. There is lots of carbon in the world!
Is this the greatest ripoff in modern society or am I just being cynical?