Am i wrong or does this mean lab grown diamonds are now (i) 5% the value of a natural stone a couple of years ago and (ii) sold at Walmart for the price not more than a Nintendo Switch game.

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my prole gf has never been gifted a diamond before and i'm getting her a 2ct solitaire necklace and i expect her and her family to be over the moon at the extravagance.

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Also feel bad for any guys who paid out $10,000 or more for an engagement ring the past few years.

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as i've grown older i've come to appreciate this birdbrainedness. especially since i'm financially secure. trading a shinny rock for enthusiastic fucking and sucking isn't a bad deal.

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You know what else I learned about the EU? You cannot purchase the copyright to a piece of artistic work from its creator without them having an attorney present. You can't buy, say, a business logo from a dude and say ok I own this now and can use it over and over royalty free. Even if they agree, the court will say no he had to have an attorney. Which I think the EU actually pays for in some capacity. Like they will actually use tax money to pay some random artist for an attorney in order to sell the rights to their art. This is for movies TV music everything. Kind of bizarre lol

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if you buy a high-quality chink watch of its own design that's not phony. if it's made to look like another brand it is. same with high quality handbag versus one imitating a brand.

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What is wrong with a high quality fake watch?

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a rolex is a rolex. a perfect imitation is still not a rolex, just like a perfect imitation of a work of art or historical artifact is not that thing.

if you have a high quality *watch* that's just as good as a real rolex that's not fake. but it's made to be an imitation of a rolex it is. and if you wear it you're representing something that isn't true. it's per se phony.

nothing "wrong" with it but i think there's a qualitative difference between the real mccoy and a fake versus two different things of the same quality but one costs 1/100th of the price because it's not a high-end brand. ones pretending it's something it's not, one isn't.

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To buy a woman from her father's house.

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Is seizing me, but I believe the stone

With all its flaws shines all more beautiful.

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In blood and suffering if that is true.

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Lab-grown diamonds have inclusions too. They are chemically indistinguishable from natural diamonds, but may have some different growth characteristics from the seeding process that you would need a microscope (not a loupe) to see.

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edit: oh yeah i'm talking about just eying them with a loupe and using their diamond lasers or whatever. i'm sure there are methods to dig even deeper than that. what i mean is that even an experienced jeweler using ordinary tools would not be able to distinguish a quality lab from a very high quality natural.

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Lab grown diamonds have improved remarkably and are indistinguishable from natural diamonds. They are so cheap to make the margins are preposterous. At wholesale, lab grown are like $100-200 for a 1 carat, versus like $3K for a real diamond. (And the lab grown will be of better color and clarity.)

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Now it literally doesn't make sense at all until you get to ultra rare > 4 carat flawless cut stones that are just being passed around by billionaires at a % return that barely beats inflation

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UMC women and their striver cuck boyfriends don't know what to do now that even proles are walking around with MASSIVE diamonds. Guess what, even if cucky buys a Harry Winston ring for $150k, if ur coworker's prole bf cops dat lab diamond for 1/10 the price and a half carat bigger, then the whole world will know ur bf is a pathetic LOSER

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Zoomers and millennials want jewelry with a “story,” like their stupid tattoos and how they buy wine now.

But plenty of old money rich people are still buying diamonds and commissioning diamond jewelry. Though there is more interest in emeralds and sapphires lately, and color in general. Also, gold at $4,000 per ounce is preserving some value for smaller pieces.

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