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Iceland needs some serious answers to some serious problems. This is PR fluff. Edit: I had written something much more critical before, but maybe Iceland needs
by motoko 18y ago
Iceland needs some serious answers to some serious problems. This is PR fluff.
Edit: I had written something much more critical before, but maybe Iceland needs the morale boost. It's unclear to me how $800k is going to save Iceland's economy through feminine values and environmentalism, but maybe it could work. However, I think it's more likely that Iceland will simply be forced to compromise and pay its debt for the next several decades selling energy and toxic dumps to smelt aluminum. I hope that they can do so without sacrificing their environment and culture entirely.
I already pity the scabs the heavy foreign industry will be pressuring to emigrate to Iceland...
- gaius 18y agoThey're an optimistic and resourceful people. They'll be over this before we in the UK are (as we are neither these days). I'd love to emigrate to Iceland. They have the great policy of requiring immigrants to take on Icelandic names, I've wasted considerable time looking at the list and wondering what mine would be :-) I think it's more likely they'll get loans from a coalition of Scandinavian nations and perhaps forfeit some political/economic independence rather than allow the predators in.
- euccastro 18y ago> They have the great policy of requiring immigrants to take on Icelandic names Nonsense. I've been there for 3 years, begged to be called Stebbie because it sounded more like my name than when they try to pronounce Esteban (they always stress the first syllable), to no avail. Truly great place to live, though.
- gaius 18y agoAre you a citizen? If so, was it straightforward?
- rms 18y agoYou want to move to Iceland with me and do some economics? We're going to need 5 or 6 really nice aluminum briefcases full of cash.
- motoko 18y agoYes, but let's go with another material for the briefcases. Iceland will have plenty of aluminum, I promise.
- euccastro 18y agoPity those forced to emigrate to Iceland? Where do you live?