People valuing diamonds more than other gems has always seemed so weird to me. If someone is ever proposing to me they had better get something fun and colorful and reasonably priced instead of a boring clear diamond
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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i would prefer SiO2 personally, also known as silicate. It has the most straightforward and boring mineral composition but a nice sheen and it clearly shows the other person values efficiency as much as i do.
People value them because they're expensive and rare. Except they're not rare, and they're only expensive because most of the world's supply is locked away to inflate their value.
You can buy artificial diamonds for fairly cheap. Like, we're talking so cheap that they're put onto angle grinder discs.
It's just propaganda/stupidity that folks continue to pay insane prices for mined diamonds. Well, in part it is the point, to spend a lot of money. If we didn't treat diamonds as expensive, we'd find something else to waste money on. It's not like diamonds were so beautiful or useful, that they were worth the price to begin with.
I looked up prices for artificial diamonds and "fairly cheap" is only cheap relative to natural diamonds. It's still expensive (at least for me).
Blood diamonds are red. (Unless you can wash the blood off of them...)