“what the hell’s the point of a diamond if no slaves died to get it and it costs less than a starter home? Now that any one of you disgusting peasants can own one its WORTHLESS!!!”
-some asshole who works for DeBeers presumably
Charging more?
Ultimately, yeah. The article points out that the way they want to do it is with unique designs, carbon neutrality, and transparency in the production chain.
“We make things from pure carbon, but we are carbon neutral” LOL
If you manage to sequester as much CO2 into a diamond as was produced making the energy you used to do it, that’d be sweet.
Just make enough money selling the diamonds to buy co2 credits, now the footprint is zero! /s
wtf there are people who want to pay more for diamonds to brag about how much they paid for a shiny rock…
This wouldn’t even be dumb if it weren’t for the fact that diamonds have practically no significant resale value.
At least if you buy something like a gold ring, you’ll know that it will be worth at least the melt value of the gold later on.
[De Beers] stating that the economics of lab-grown diamonds for jewelry were not sustainable.
“That’s cheating, we can’t throttle the market of these shiny rocks! The indistinguishable ones you need are still those we’re killing people for!”
I hope one day you can make a perfect gemstone for the cost of a burger, so people just stop caring about them at all.
Actually diamons are plenty but suplier choke supplies to make it “rare.”
A pair of Stardew Valley pendants from Etsy is probably more meaningful than diamond rings, tbh.
