Lab grown diamonds are artificially created in labs/machines, but their organic makeup is the exact same as ones that come from the ground. Visually there is no difference.
Why do people need to disclose if one is lab made if they are identical in every way? And why do people think less of lab-grown diamonds? Is there a difference?
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Diamonds have value. They are useful in machinery and a few other applications.
As jewelry they are impractical and serve as ornamentation, a status symbol, and in some ways a symbol of emotional investment. Repeat, they are not practical. They are not important for their material composition.
Some might say it’s like a work of art, with mother nature being the artist.
For generations diamond companies have convinced people that diamonds are an important item and are worth a lot of money, so people pay that money.
Those are invested either emotionally or financially into this construct of acceptance must uphold the scarcity or else their entire house of cards comes falling down. What they have is worthless if anyone else can have it on a whim, and manufacturing diamonds is the greatest threat to their facade.
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