> The ritual around a hunk of carbon is the same category of thinking IMO. Positional goods have real effects, mediated by other people, in a way that astrolog

> The ritual around a hunk of carbon is the same category of thinking IMO. Positional goods have real effects, mediated by other people, in a way that astrology doesn't directly. Reducing the role of such things is often good life advice, and pushing back on mined diamonds in particular is morally motivated as well, but I don't think it's right to consider it the same as astrology.