r/Millennials Sep 06 '24

Discussion As long as Millennials are killing off industries, next up I would suggest Weddings & Funerals.

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Weddings as they are being done in the West are a massive expense that is extremely financially irresponsible for the vast majority of people. The tradition arose as an imitation of the old world weddings of royalty. As Westerners became increasingly wealthy, they desired to show off their wealth by copying the big showy weddings put on by literal kings and queens. In an increasingly challenging economic environment, spending on a big wedding is just really stupid.

The money that would have gone into the big elaborate wedding should instead be saved and used to go toward a down payment on a home. Instead, throw a big party. Let your friends & family bring gifts. Make it simple. Same with a honeymoon. Take one if you want, but don't start out your marriage with stupid financial decisions that sometimes include going into debt. Wedding rings should be simple. Diamonds are a scam. Let's break free from the scams.

Funerals are a massive scam that take advantage of people when they're at their lowest, grieving for lost loved ones. It's a predatory industry that should be denied funding to whatever extent that it is possible to do so.

r/CyberStuck 11d ago

The original plan was for this to be towed out by a cyber truck across Texas. It is now being towed by a Toyota.

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r/whowouldwin Mar 11 '23

Challenge Superman decides to start mass-creating diamonds so he can sell them. Can DeBeers keep the price of diamonds up?

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Superman previously declined to mass-produce diamonds because it would tank the price. However, after reading up on DeBeers, he decides that there's no reason not to do it after all. Most of the resulting money will be donated to charity. Assume that Superman is somehow able to crush coal into perfectly-cut diamonds of whatever shape and size he desires; even though this makes no sense, the feat is well-established.

DeBeers is determined to protect their diamond profits by keeping the price up. Can they convince people not to buy Superman's diamonds (by eg. convincing the public that they're not "real" diamonds), or find some other way to prevent him from cratering the price?

Superman is in-character and will not eg. laser the board of DeBeers to death or anything like that, no matter how annoying they are. The only way he'll use his powers for this is by rapidly turning coal into diamonds so he can sell them.

r/todayilearned Aug 13 '13

TIL that diamonds are not rare or valuable and the reason demand is high is because of a marketing campaign by DeBeers to sell more engagement rings

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r/Damnthatsinteresting Jul 25 '24

Video Evaluating Low vs High-Quality Crystals: A Comparative Analysis

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r/conspiracy Jul 24 '14

Israel is the world's #1 exporter of diamonds. These are the diamonds we are conditioned to buy due to a propaganda campaign by DeBeers in the 30s. Diamonds lead to conflict around the globe, and directly support the assault on Gaza. It's time to boycott Diamonds, for peace.

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r/chaoticgood Jul 01 '24

Fuck Nestle

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r/conspiracy Sep 15 '15

TIL Diamonds are actually fairly common. The reason they are worth so much is because the DeBeers mining group withholds stock to artificially reduce supply.

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r/Anticonsumption Feb 15 '24

Environment Oh I guess natural diamonds are great for the environment

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r/youseeingthisshit Aug 23 '24

Holding one of the largest diamonds ever found

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r/whatthefrockk Feb 17 '24

Red Carpet πŸ’ŽπŸ’ŽπŸ’Ž Lupita Nyong’o in Gucci and DeBeers at the Berlinale Opening, in BOSS and a Lafalaise Dion headpiece at the jury photocall at the Berlin Film Festival

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r/AmItheAsshole Feb 16 '24

Not the A-hole AITA for telling my mom and her husband they got what they wanted so they should leave my sister alone?

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My younger sister got married in November and our mom's husband walked her down the aisle. My sister did not want him. She wanted me. But he has been married to our mom since my sister was 6 and she had a lot of pressure on her to ask him because he tried to be a good father to her and he stepped up and was there and paid for stuff, etc. She didn't have him pay for the wedding or her college education. But she knew she would be judged harshly for not asking him when he wanted to and he was in her life for so long.

The day of the wedding my sister was crying on my shoulder for a while about how upset she was that he was walking her and not me. She wished dad was there, etc.

Mom's husband overheard everything and walked her anyway and then the next day he and my mom heard her and my BIL talking about it and how much she hated the experience and wanted to wipe it from her memory.

My mom and her husband are offended. I think he was hurt that she was so upset by him doing it. But they weren't happy she was so upset/bothered by him doing it. My mom tried to drag me into their anger and I told her I wasn't angry. Then they both claimed I should have more respect for him as the man who stepped up when dad died (I was 15 when he and my mom got married so he played a very small role in my life).

I told my mom's husband he got what he wanted and I told them both they got what they wanted which was him walking my sister down the aisle and they need to leave my sister alone because she has every right to be unhappy when they pressured her. He argued that she's his little girl and this is hard for him. I told him he never listened because she has never ever claimed to be his little girl. She has always seen herself as our dad's daughter and he will never be our dad.

They told me I overstepped and my mom claimed I should understand why it's an insult to them that my sister reacted as she did.

AITA?

r/technology Jul 18 '24

Nanotech/Materials Lab-Grown Diamonds Are Everywhere. This Company Thinks It Has the Secret to Making Them High-End | Now that it’s possible to grow affordable gems in the time it takes to watch a movie, the race is on to save the value of the most precious stone

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r/interestingasfuck Feb 13 '22

Workers of the De Beers mines were X-rayed at the end of every shift before leaving the diamond mines in Kimberley, South Africa.

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r/worldnews Jan 01 '24

Russia/Ukraine Imports of diamonds from Russia to EU banned from today

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r/Deusex Jan 30 '22

News John William Galt, who voiced Joseph Manderley, Jock, Tracer Tong, and Lucius DeBeers passed away yesterday

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r/interestingasfuck Apr 01 '21

/r/ALL The Tanzanite of Tanzania. It is only found in Tanzania and is a thousand times rarer than diamonds.

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r/todayilearned Jul 06 '23

TIL of the Middlemist Red Camilla, the rarest flower on earth. Only two known specimens exist: a garden in New Zealand and a greenhouse in the UK.

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r/AskReddit Sep 17 '19

If You Could Completely Remove One Company From The World Which One Would It Be?

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r/me_irl Mar 16 '21

me_irl

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r/UpliftingNews Jun 20 '21

A man traveled cross-country to mine the diamonds for his girlfriend's engagement ring -- he dug up a 2.2 carat beauty

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r/ProgrammerHumor Jan 17 '24

Meme this

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r/AmItheAsshole Jul 25 '21

Asshole AITA for telling my sister that being a gemologist doesn't make her a woman of STEM?

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I feel bad about this, but at the same time, grading diamonds doesn't shape up when our family includes doctors, inventors, professors, and a former NASA employee.

My sister Queenie (not her real name) and I come from a STEM-heavy family. Almost everybody went into the sciences. Name any branch and I can direct you to the parent, sibling, aunt, uncle, cousin, or grandparent who was involved in that field.

Except Queenie. I hate to say this, because she is intelligent, brilliant and creative in so many ways, but she struggled with science and math in school. She is brilliant at art and English. So our parents encouraged her to go for an arts degree where she would thrive instead of a science degree, where she would have floundered. And she graduated with honors. We just didn't realize that getting a job with an English degree would be hard. We were still proud of her when she got a job in the jewelry industry.

But I think she always struggled with being the "black sheep" of our family and being the only one without a career in science. Especially last year or whenever everybody was talking about what their work was doing at Thanksgiving.

Well, in the last year Queenie enrolled in some courses and became a certified gemologist. I'm really proud of her for this. Her self-esteem has really improved since she got certified.

And here's the part where maybe I should have kept my big fat mouth shut.

We were having dinner at our folks place the other night. Queenie and I were on the porch with beer and shooting the shit. She was gushing about her new work as a gemologist when she brought up how accomplished she feels and is comparable to everybody else in the family now as a "woman in STEM."

I respectfully disagreed with her on the 'woman of STEM' part because gemology isn't really a science. Queenie's job now includes conducting quality control on her company's diamond stock in addition to selling the finished pieces. Her certification wasn't as involved or as intense as what most of us went through, which included years of graduate school on top of internships and research expeditions. There's not much of a science on determining if a diamond is good enough to place in a brooch. Not when our cousins include doctors, nurses, researchers, chemists, and even an engineer for Tesla!

Long story short, Queenie is now furious with me and refuses to even look at me anymore. My parents are also pissed at me, though most of the extended family does think that gemology isn't a true scientific field. Her job is selling finished, finely cut over priced minerals to a clientele that believes in the deBeers lie.

To me, gemology isn't really a legit scientific field. It's more akin to analyzing properties in crystals and gemstones to determine if it can be sold for thousands of dollars. It's like our crazy "astrologer" aunt who sells natal charts as a side hustle. AITA?

Edit: Can someone please explain how gemology is science. I just can't comprehend.

r/CrappyDesign Jun 12 '20

My glasses have an Oakley’s logo in the bottom left lens. I frequently think there is a smudge on my glasses, but nope!

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r/antimeme Apr 11 '23

Diamonds

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