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.)
There’s precedent for these multibillion-dollar, blockbuster purchases: In 2022, Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion. Who knew Greenland was hypothetically worth just $13 billion more than Twitter?
Of course, when he bought Twitter, Musk was “only” worth a paltry $219 billion. (Poor guy.) So, that $44 billion represented a much larger percentage of his wealth than buying Greenland would today.
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. […]
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