I'm just saying there are marks out there that will bite at anything shiny, and pay lots of money for it. I'm not a fish or a mark. Maybe we're just from different generations, but I channel resources the way I do without shame. I value some things very highly, and others not so highly. I think diamonds are junk. They will never approach the complexity of man-made artifacts that embody an accumulation of hundreds of years of knowledge. Except for the CVD ones.
Maybe diamonds will someday be used to make computer chips, and then the naturally made ones will be considered junk because they're so flawed, small, and therefore useless. Diamonds can't be melted down into a uniform product like gold. They embody discrete units of imperfectedness. Even if the natural ones are refined, they will never be perfect.
The price of a diamond is based on its supposed rarity, but they aren't rare:
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/200...NDS_index.html
and there are a lot of people that either don't feel like thinking for themselves, or can't, so they value, and desire things only according to price. Price is, after all, the consensually agreed upon value of an object.
If for some reason CVD diamonds become more expensive than natural diamonds (which might some day be considered junk), will you then look down on people purchasing natural diamonds for their wives because they are purchasing the cheaper alternative? The flawed natural stone that is a poor approximation of a perfect stone?
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