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The modern market for diamonds was created by the diamond cartels, a handful of corporations that control most of the worlds supply. Many of these men are wanted criminals in the US and are guilty of monopoly and antitrust laws as well as the human cost to the diamond industry. Lab diamonds can be made in such high quality that the only way to tell they are fake is they are too perfect to be real. The diamond companies had fits and lobbied all sorts of restrictions on lab diamonds as well as buying control in many enterprises to suppress their use outside industry. Diamonds are valued for refractory quality but have poorer refractory qualities than cubic zirconia (which is seen as a "cheap" diamond thanks to campaigns by... big diamond.) in short- the whole industry makes the finance industry look like saints. It's a dirty waste of money for a tiny lousy rock driven by consumerist marketing and a basal monkey thought of "shiny is good!"