[ExI] so just buy it

[Adrian Tymes]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 5:58 PM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> Amid all this Greenland conflict, it occurred to me we aughta just see if Musk or Ellison will buy it.  Musk could offer every Greenlander one miiiiilllllion dollars, if they agree to make like Billy Joe and Bobby Sue, take the money and run, get the US to agree to take them.

1) Enough similar iterations have already been offered that it is fair
to say that Greenlanders have already said no to this, even if this
specific iteration may not have already been suggested to them.  You
could go poll them, get a no, then point out if they haven't each been
offered specifically $1,000,001 and ask if they would accept this.

They have said no, to any price.

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland says that Greenland has a
population of 56,831.  One may debate the precise accuracy, but it
seems likely the population is between 50,000 and 60,000, which means
that this would cost between 50 and 60 billion dollars.  While it is
true that Musk's fortune is estimated at more than 10 times that
amount, given Musk's demonstrated values, it can be concluded that
Greenland would not be worth that much money to him.

It might be worth it to you for him to spend his money on this.  But
that's you spending his money on things he doesn't think is worth it.
How would you like it if he spent a bunch of your money on something
you did not care for?  You'd have to make the case that it would be
worth it, using only the criteria that he has demonstrated that he
places value on.

3) One could say "get the US to agree to take them" would be a
condition of the deal.  But in practice, US immigration would likely
be slow or denied in many cases.  This would be a pre-broken promise,
and many of them know it.  Offering a deal where you know you're not
going to fulfill your promises is the very definition of dealing in
bad faith.  And if they know you're dealing in bad faith, why would
they bother upholding their end of the deal?  Even assuming problems 1
and 2 were dealt with, they would be within their rights to take the
money and not run.  Knowing this, Musk would be even less likely to
let his money be used this way.