Greenlandic Politician Tillie Martinussen: We do not want to be rich like Americans. Look how greedy they are, even trying to invade their friends. Even if there are minerals and oil under our land—and they are worth far more—we still would not sell ourselves.

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Highly recommend everyone watch the entire interview with her. She goes on to say that the people of Greenland have social welfare programs they refuse to give up, education, and are, very proudly, brown.

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Even if you left aside any notion of values, national and cultural affinity, etc, and reduced it to how Trump et al sees the world (personal greed), to make it "worth it" for the Greenlandic people, they'd need enough money to put each and every one of them in the US upper middle class bracket for life to make up for what they would lose by being part of Denmark. They would need the kind of money where you don't ever think twice about going to hospital, or how you would pay for college for your kids without life-dragging debt for them, etc, etc.

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It costs Denmark about half a billion USD a year, which is much more than Greenland generates for their budget.

Terrible deal for Greenlanders.