Indeed. My fiance and I are in agreement on the matter, we'd rather have something nice and meaningful that we picked out from the heart, rather than some overpriced, artificially inflated thing that we feel obligated to buy because of society's insistence that love is quantified by the size of a rock

Only the people that are invested in diamonds give a shit. What I wonder about is the news item on a guy that over a decade ago was growing sheets of diamond to use for semiconductors. I await the affordable diamond devices.

Because Amethysts are so much prettier than a bit of carbon that is more useful in industry than on my finger.

Supposed Millennial here-- My wedding ring is made of diamonds, but they're small. The whole ring was $300. Firstly, I don't do GIANT rocks, you know, the ones that are a gajillion dollars. They are impractical for my clumsy self. I would knock the shit on some post and it would go flying. And sure they are insured, but first, I do not want to go finding that diamond every other day, and then go take it to the jewelers the same amount of times.

Second: They are super expensive! For no reason other than greed!

Nothing wrong with liking diamonds. I just find them boring, unless they're really large enough to see the internal color sparkles. The microdots you usually find on things, you could replicate with sequins and nobody could tell. :P

They are killing the diamond industry, the fine dining industry, and so many others. How dare they try to afford things like housing and food on their meager salaries! Don't they know they are putting hard working luxury dealers out of business, and then where will the rich be able to go to get rid of pocket change