1) they expensive bruh 2) none of us kno the dif btwn a fucking diamond and some fancy ass glass ur capitalist rock hierarchy has no control over us
3) mostly mined with slave labor
4) we get excited when our date buys us an appetizer, we don’t even comprehend people buying us rocks that would force us into debt for ten years
5) They aren’t actually that rare and the price is artificially inflated.
6) There are so many more interesting rocks out there that are much nicer to look at
7) IF YOU BUY ME A FUCKING $1 000 000 SHINY ROCK I’LL PUNCH YOU IN THE JAW AND REPLACE YOUR FALLEN TEETH WITH IT
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MANY VIDEOGAMES AND CUPCAKES YOU CAN BUY WITH A FUCKING DIAMOND’S MONEY WORTH HENRY
BUY ME A CHERRY POP RING U ASS
8) if there so valuable, then how come they’re so common in grinding and other abrasive tooling? The industry is controlled by a handful of people, the diamonds are mined by slaves, prisoners and extremely poor people. They are severely punished if caught stealing. And the millennials are becoming increasingly more aware of how this world works than the generation before them. They cherish food on the table, clothes on their backs, music, art, travel, social justice, and a clean earth far more than some petty, dormant and useless rock.
Reblogging for the article linked to #5.
Reblogging for all the damn truth!
9) The artificially created diamond market intended (very successfully) to convince people that the diamond was a high status symbol of success in both economic and family life. It specifically catered to a very heterosexual, middle class & upper class, nuclear family lifestyle which at the time was still the primary source from which capitalism could extract labour.
Then the middle class began to collapse, the boomers left us with a ruined economy, and we are waking up to the fact that this entire system has overwhelmingly failed us and only seeks to exploit us.
What fucking use would we have for that system’s monstrously overpriced status symbols? “Keeping up with the Jonses” means something very different when the “Jonses” are, just like you, simply trying to survive and get their basic needs met.
The only diamonds important to me are the ones from my mother’s engagement ring, which she reset and gave to me in a necklace. Because they are meaningful to me in a deeply personal way, and didn’t cost my lo
