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Scott Pinsker, PJMedia
The total population of Greenland is approximately 57,000. Elon Musk is currently worth about $425.2 billion.
Which means that for the low price of just $57 billion, Musk could offer everyone in Greenland a million bucks and simply buy it. (And he’d still have about $375 billion left over.)
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Theoretically, there’s nothing to prevent Musk from buying the land on his own — and then reselling it to the U.S. government. (In exchange, perhaps, for exclusive rare earth mining rights?) Musk is actually wealthy enough to pull it off without being unduly leveraged.
Financial experts typically recommend that you allocate no more than 25% to 40% of your net worth on housing, although the Biden-Harris real estate market has made that benchmark unrealistic for most young people. Well, $57 billion is only about 15% of Musk’s net worth.
Which means, it’s easier for Musk to buy Greenland than the average American to buy their first home! (Three cheers for Bidenomics!)
Money talks. Money is power. Elon Musk is the world’s wealthiest man; the United States of America is the world’s wealthiest country. Working together, they absolutely could acquire Greenland.
And sure, there might be a handful of native Greenlanders with strong cultural connections to their homeland. That’s to be expected. But under this plan, a Greenlandic family of five would get $5 million bucks! Throw in a five-pack of American citizenship cards, an apartment in Palm Beach, and maybe complimentary membership at Mar-a-Lago, and Greenland will be empty in less than an hour.
