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This reminds of a Business 101 professor (former tech CEO) that I had in college. He liked to survey Freshman on their preferences. I don't remember the categor
by rconti 7y ago
This reminds of a Business 101 professor (former tech CEO) that I had in college. He liked to survey Freshman on their preferences. I don't remember the category precisely, but he was visibly taken aback and commented that "McDonalds" had never NOT been the #1 in one of the Freshman preference categories (I'm guessing it was for "favorite fast food", but I can't remember precisely). This struck me as a great way to keep a pulse on the market.
I bet he'd pick up the diamond trend if that was in his survey!
I got married a few years back, both of us in our mid 30s. I never intended to buy a diamond, and instead bought a sapphire engagement ring. Interestingly, it wasn't until AFTER we got engaged that I found out/realized that both her mother AND grandmother wore sapphire rings. Her 100 year old grandmother had been married multiple times, but her last and favorite engagement ring was a sapphire, despite having certainly received plenty of diamonds throughout her lifetime.
- dreamcompiler 7y ago> "McDonalds" had never NOT been the #1 in one of the Freshman preference categories The Beloit Mindset List annually captures the changing worldview of younger generations. http://themindsetlist.com/2017/08/beloit-college-mindset-list-class-2021/ http://themindsetlist.com/2017/08/beloit-college-mindset-lis...
- Balgair 7y agoGreat resource! Thanks! Aside: Good God that list is cringy!
- whatshisface 7y agoWhat it really puts into perspective is, Fifty years from now, student loan derivatives will be the largest asset class, you'll be worried about teenagers spongling each other on the lacework, and you'll read an article about the graduating generation and find it pretty insightful.
- jlborxes 7y agoThe lacework spongling issue is definitely exaggerated by the conservative bigots who believe that there are only 45 genders.
- falcor84 7y agoRegardless of the chosen value of x, Why do people feel the need to assign others to one of x boxes at all?
- jlborxes 7y agoBecause that's a feature of human perception. How would you handle social life without at least some labeling of others? You brain would overload with all the unnecessary information. Labeling is basically saving brain's RAM and CPU power.
- whatshisface 7y agoI think the Large Integer Gender thing was invented by academics with a strong cultural bias towards taxonimizing.
- banannaise 7y agoIt was invented by conservatives trying badly to make jokes about LGBT+ acceptance.
- nyolfen 7y agoa few million years of genetic programming and the fact that presentation and chromosome type correlate in >99.9% of cases. gender may not be a fact of the universe but it's about as close as complex cultural traits get.
- baud147258 7y agoSome of the list is applicable to people born from the start of 90s. Still cool, though
- rconti 7y agoI was born in the early 80s and still have no idea what that westinghouse W radio thing is all about.
- irrational 7y agoI was born in the early 70s and I have no idea either.
- lonelappde 7y agoMy bride wanted sapphire because she knew I was convinced of the evil history of diamond. 10 years later she demanded a big diamond to replace it and I realized she'd been seething all those years but compromised because she was playing the long game our marriage.
- xivzgrev 7y agoHaha sounds about right!
- hkmurakami 7y agoThat's too bad that she may have not been upfront with you from the onset :(
- triangleman 7y agoCrazy... So did the salesman at the jewelry store go into a whole speech about the "5 C's" of diamonds? (Clarity, carats, etc.) Can't believe how quickly he disappeared when I told him "oh sorry I'm not interested in a diamond."
- Animats 7y agoSapphire is something you buy in bulk, in sheets, tubes, rods, or bar stock.[1] Every scanner window at Home Depot is a sheet of sapphire. You can drag steel tools across those all day for years without much effect. [1] https://www.alibaba.com/showroom/synthetic+sapphire.html https://www.alibaba.com/showroom/synthetic+sapphire.html
- jquery 7y agoThis is precisely why I purchased my wife a diamond, it was worth every penny, I think she was proud of it for years, always showing it off. It’s not my place to judge her, it made her happy, feel loved and validated, and that was more valuable than the money. The key is to buy wholesale online or you’ll get totally ripped off, the markups at places like Tiffany’s or Bloomjngdales are outrageous and are the biggest reason diamonds have poor resale value. You wouldn’t buy gold at a 10x markup but that’s precisely what people do with diamonds for some reason. Also don’t buy a diamond on credit, my wife and I had significant savings and no debt so it wasn’t like the diamond hurt our finances. Of course everyone is entitled to get whatever stone (or no stone) they want! Diamonds seem to be falling out of favor so the article above doesn’t surprise me. I would put some blame on the diamond industry being too greedy, selling at outrageous markups and telling everyone a proper diamond should be “X months salary” where X has gone up by 1 every decade.