The diamond invention was an ingenious scheme for sustaining the value of diamonds in an uncertain world. To begin with, it involved gaining control over the production of all the important diamond mines in the world. Next, a system was devised for allocating this controlled supply of gems to a select number of diamond cutters who all agreed to abide by certain rules intended to assure that the quantity of finished diamonds available at any given time never exceeded the public's demand for them. Finally, a set of subtle, but effective, incentives were devised for regulating the behavior of all the people who served and ultimately profited from the system.
The invention is far more than merely a monopoly for fixing diamond prices; it is a mechanism for converting tiny crystals of carbon into universally recognized tokens of power and romance. For it to ultimately succeed, it must endow these stones with the sort of sentiment that would inhibit the public from ever reselling them onto the market. The illusion thus had to be inculcated into the mass mind that diamonds were forever-- "forever" in the sense that they could never be resold.
In 1870, however, there was a radical change in this situation. Huge diamond "pipes" were discovered near the Orange River in South Africa.
These were the first diamond mines ever discovered. Now, rather than finding by chance an occasional diamond in a river, diamonds could now be scooped out of these mines by huge steam shovels. Suddenly, the market was deluged a growing flood of diamonds. The British financiers who had organized the South African mines quickly came to realize that their investment was endangered: diamonds had little intrinsic value, and their price depended almost entirely on their scarcity. They feared that when new mines developed in South Africa, diamonds would become at best only a semi-precious gem.
As it turned out, financial acumen proved the mother of invention. The major investors in the diamond mines realized that they had no alternative but to merge their interests into a single entity that would be powerful enough to control the mines' production and, in every other way that was necessary, perpetuate the scarcity and illusion of diamonds. The instrument that they created for this purpose was called De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., a company incorporated in South Africa.
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I agree 100%. To the woman, an engagement ring (or wedding ring) doesn't hold the symbol that she is unavailable to other men. The ring's sole purpose is to show her girlfriends that she is valuable. Other than that, the ring is meaningless.jonwon said:I also think regardless of the commercial angle, women want one because they can show it off to all their friends, or should I put it another way; they want to rub their friends noses in it.
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Desdinova said:I agree 100%. To the woman, an engagement ring (or wedding ring) doesn't hold the symbol that she is unavailable to other men. The ring's sole purpose is to show her girlfriends that she is valuable. Other than that, the ring is meaningless.
I love this and Desdinova's quote!Warrior74 said:Once you understand that fact....you are one step closer to how the game works. Everything is to prove her value. You are there to prove her value. Look how smart my boyfriend is, or how tall he is, or how much money he has, or how artistic he is! Look at how these shoes make me look, look at my nails, look at my new hairdo, everything is to compete with other women. Which is why you are the prize. She wants you to show off to other women, "Look at this prize I worked for and got and you can't have it." Or "Look at this beta I got to marry me and pay all my bills and take care of me, what do you have?"
That's why you can never put her above you. She must work to keep her prize, she must know she can lose her prize and all that comes with it.
Oh I'm getting a girl a ring alright. A cubic zirconia ring (CZ - the artificial diamond). You can get it for under $500 and it looks great, in fact it has an even brighter *fire* than a real diamond, that's how you can tell it is artificial. No way in hell I'm going to spend 3 months salary on a diamond ring.Desdinova said:Do you think the old saying "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" is true or false? Why?
I believe it's a mistake to extrapolate the expected behavior of every woman out there based on one damaged example.Desdinova said:..... the engagement ring doesn't mean a goddam thing other than proof of value.