Diamond market

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You literally can not expect them to understand.

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I gotta be honest, some of you

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My wife and I, very early in our relationship, bought cheap tungsten carbide rings to prank my parents by telling them we had eloped. When we actually did get married, we decided to use those same rings. I like her.

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That makes sense. It wasn't coming across in the earlier comments.

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How many world wars were fought in the last century? The answer might surprise you!

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I think for most people it's just a matter of tradeoffs. You don't have to be interested in the act of doing something in order to be interested in the consequence of doing that thing.

Someone who doesn't like driving may still drive, and concentrate on driving the entire time, to get to a destination where they want to end up. For someone who doesn't like to cook but wants to eat hot food, cooking is a means to that end.

Now, if you're saying that you don't think that tradeoff is worth it to you, maybe that's true of them if they stop to think about it, too. But I'm not sure that's what's going on for most people who continue to work jobs they don't like.

JackbyDev

Idk, dude. I've met people I swear are autistic but social but they're overly rigid about social norms and being polite. I don't buy itwhat you're saying. Anyone can be interested in anything.

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If by last century, you mean 1900-1999; 2

If you mean in the last 100 years; 1. Which is honestly impressive all things considered.

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Yeah only question for me right now is if it will go to 0 or 2 before going back to 1.

Uriel238 [all pronouns]

It was weird to me, when I was looking for rings and jewelry that there are gems that have a higher brilliance and luster than diamonds (and unlike super-fancy bright glass is actually robust enough for typical use). And yet, the folks that want diamonds want diamonds. Since around 2016 after seeing the Mnuchins in the news, it felt like conflict diamonds and slave-mined diamonds are in.

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Don't limit yourself, could go to 2 and then 3 instead of back to 1.

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Anyone can be interested in anything.

Yeah, but I'm responding to a comment that says that neurotypical people aren't curious or passionate about the things they're interested in, and I think that's too narrow of a way to define "interest."

I'd reject that way of thinking because that principle could be weaponized to accuse some neurodivergent people of not caring about people by misreading why they might not be great with social cues or things like that.

AreaSIX

Well, we do label everything nice as "exclusive", as in excluding others from ownership. So how nice things are deemed to be seems to be fuelled by pure spite for other people. You can't have it, so it's "exclusive", meaning good and desirable. Our values in modern societies are just awful and misanthropic.

AreaSIX

The whole economy has already crashed multiple times, based on frivolous financial speculation on a massive scale with fiat currency. Gold, which is not a rock by the way, is at the very least finite so it inhibits the ability of these people to print fake money and burn it up, destroying people's lives in the process. I'm not saying a gold standard would be preferable, but I do believe the question to be far more nuanced than "idiots wanna base money off of rocks, instead of just feels as we do currently".

Flying Squid

Did you really just do an 'um askshully' because I called gold a rock?

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That'd be a problem if people were using blanket statements, but that's not how the comment is worded.

If someone said, "Autistic people tend to have strong, specific interests," nobody would be getting insulted. We'd be like, "Yeah, that tracks." Even if somebody autistic lacked that particular trait, the phrase "tend to" allows for exceptions to the statement - it'd be understood that not every autistic individual fits that description, but many often do.

Which is why it's interesting that when an autistic person flips that exact same sentiment around to show what "normal" people look like from their perspective, neurotypicals are taken aback.

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Really? I always thought it looked gaudy. Maybe that's because most the ones I see are comically large ones that would cost more than an SUV if they were diamond.

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That's an adorable nickname

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it's the suffering that makes them special.

MentalEdge

I honestly couldn't care less about the actual rocks.

But pretty colors are pretty colors.