Originally published at: Down the Rabbit Hole of the Greenland Tech-Bro State - TPM – Talking Points Memo
If you delve into Greenland discourse you quickly find also sorts of degenerate weirdness. And let me be crystal clear in the second sentence of this post that by ‘Greenland discourse’ I mean more or less nothing about the actual physical place or its people: I mean the imaginings of various North American tech weirdos…
If you have $500M, it should be possible to take over, say, Haiti. Fund some local politicians, put together some demagoguery, get elected, create a tech utopia with 12MM citizens (at $40 a head!).