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Why would you spend money to impress people you don't like? You're an adult. Don't let peer pressure o expectations from stangers or family influence your behavior or your spending. You can't live your life to impress others. Someone will always have something negative to say. If love is based on a ring will your wife love you when she maxes out your cards, bankrupts you trying to impress people and is living in a van with you?

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Any one can get their GF a diamond, so why not prove you love her and get her a bolt action .50BMG.

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www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/i2l/kls.htmlKing Leopold's Soliloquy by Mark Twain, about human rights abuses in the Congo.Same stuff, different century.Maybe the price of diamonds will fall sharply near term. Maybe it won't. But how does one invest in selling short? Meanwhile, diamonds do have some advantages over a plasma TV. You buy her a diamond a) to brand her as yours. b) so when she walks in you having sex with your best friend (bad dog!) she can walk out, pawn the ring for planefare home to mom or whatever. It's tacky to walk out carrying the plasma tv. And you probably won't leave the tv to your grandchildren. A guy who proposes with a ring worth two month's wages separates you from the guy at the bar who just asks every woman to marry him.A guy who can't save up two months pay isn't ready to propose.Some of the above is useful, some of it isn't.A diamond is no longer a long term security policy for a woman. So, platinum ring, or a letter of credit from a swiss bank?These days, she's more likely to invest in a degree than in a man who will give her a ring.The prize isn't the ring - that's at best a consolation prize. The prize is finding someone who will give you the ring,and mean it. If you find the guy, you don't need the ring.Sincerity is the key to making a long term commitement work. Once you can fake that, you're in.I'm a paranoid solipcist myself, but most people are looking to pairbond, which is about building trust and reciprocity. Diamonds use to be useful tools for that. If you can invent/market a good social substitute for what the diamond used to be, that's bankable, unless you'd rather do it open source for the wuffie.Incidentally, this is my first digg post. Clever Nick Name sent me.

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At least a car takes you places you wouldn't want to (or are too lazy to) walk to.

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I'm glad to see the spotlight finally being focused on this unethical and sometimes bloody racket.

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Holy cartels, batman. Good to see this stuff brought to the light.

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I'm not sure whether they can manipulate the public that much. I'd rather look at trade restrictions like the Kimberley process that may pitch up prices.

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Here is a history of the Debers Cartel

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