Diamond market

[hawlsera@lemm.ee]

The fact that the human race sees scarcity as a good thing....

Is everything I need to justify misanthropy in its most literal form (Hatred of humanity)

[contingencyfork@lemmy.world]

Not the ending I was expecting.

[inhale_vegetables@aussie.zone]

360 nopost

[inhale_vegetables@aussie.zone]

Hmm...

[ramenshaman@lemmy.world]

I was, just moments ago, watching a video on the jerryrigeverything youtube channel about how industrial diamonds are made.

[lime@feddit.nu]

"the suffering is what makes it special" is a simplified way of saying "the de Beers company ran hundreds of advertising campaigns with the express purpose of convincing people that lab diamonds, which can be made perfect in every way, are inferior to the products of their blood diamond monopoly, and since the resulting stone is the exact same the only thing we can assume they mean makes it better is the slave-labor used in their extraction"

[dharmacurious@slrpnk.net]

I... Do not know what that means lol

[dharmacurious@slrpnk.net]

I thought "(former)" was enough foreshadowing. Sorrys lol

[reversalhatchery@beehaw.org]

they must have inhaled too much vegetables

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

Shit like that is why I think neuro-atypical people might actually be the correct psychological state and everyone else is just a "normal" animal.

[underpantsweevil@lemmy.world]

The issue is he cartel. Telling people "I overpaid for a blood diamond" and flashing them your big rock does nothing to undermine the cartel in the long run.

[saleh@feddit.org]

Scarcity of what? Food, water, sanitary infrastructure, shelter, healthcare? Yeah that is bad.

Scarcity of pretty rocks, some people want to wear as accessoires? Fine whatever. Also i wouldn't mind the mining of scarce and pretty rocks, if it wouldn't go with the destruction of the environment and human rights abuses.

[saleh@feddit.org]

@[email protected] has a great point. If you, the pleb, wears an artificial diamond and ruin the mood for the people who overpay for the blood diamonds, does devalue the status symbol.

It is the same reason why clothing brands fight so eagerly against cheap knockoffs, even if the knockoffs can be identified easily.

[whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world]

An AuDHD perspective: Neurotypicals tend to lack curiosity and passion for interests. They're less in-touch with their senses, sometimes needing mind-altering substances in order to appreciate basic sensory stimuli. Not only that, but they are overly-invested in "following the group" and "blending in," even if it ends up harming them.

So yeah, you might be onto something.

[gamechld@lemmy.world]

Neurotypical // Neurodivergent

I often forget the term and end up using atypical.

[pringles@lemm.ee]

I like diamonds, my wife calls me a magpie. I buy her jewelry so I get to look at it while she wears it. That being said, I only buy jewelry with artificial diamonds for my better half. She jokingly reacts affronted when I tell her, with an incredulous face she will go "What? No children died for this? Some husband you are!"

[southsamurai@sh.itjust.works]

1/10 the price of what though? Retail, wholesale, or something like that , I assume.

Which is fine, since you were responding to a vague two sentence comment. I should have done my usual long comment instead, it just isn't something I really care about, so I kept it short. Damned if you do, damned if you don't in that regard. Go mid to long, you have morons whining about the Kenney length. Go short, and someone is going to poke at it in one way or another.

I'm just glad the person poking at it was neutral to friendly about it

But, 1/10 the price of mined diamonds is still 1/10 the grossly inflated price of mined diamonds, not what they should cost based on a semi-fair market rather than the bullshit the diamond market is.

Making the diamonds still isn't cheaper than pulling them out of the ground. I'm not aware of energy usage, environmental impact, or anything like that, but in terms of the production costs only.

That's why man-made is cheaper; they're competing against a rigidly corrupt and price fixed market.

Mind you, I also couldn't tell you what the cost of mining the diamonds would be if slave labor wasn't involved either. Could be that with fair wages, safety measures, etc, manmade would totally undercut natural again.

There, that's the ten cent version instead of the penny cent version. Not gonna waste anyone's time on the buck fifty version because I doubt anyone else cares, and I don't care enough

[mystikincarnate@lemmy.ca]

I think it's a modification of "360 noscope" which is a gaming term for an unexpected change in a game stemming from fps games like counter strike. The term basically relates to a high skill/high luck shot usually involving a quick rotation and/or flick shot, where you didn't use the scope of the weapon to help improve accuracy, but made the shot anyways.

Basically saying it was a highly unlikely outcome...

The "nopost" which replaces "noscope" is probably their way of referencing the above while making it relevant to the context (a post).

I'll admit, the words, taken at face value, do not make a lot of sense. The entire thing relies on a general understanding of the 360 noscope meme.

[hawlsera@lemm.ee]

Scarcity of anything is a bad idea. Shouldn't we WANT to live in a land of plenty?

[saleh@feddit.org]

Well, if we had less oil, gas and coal it could make things a lot better with climate change.

Abundance can also lead to wastefullness. But generally speaking it just doesn't matter if pretty rocks are scarce or not, if they don't have any value in fulfilling human needs.