Ivan Krastev
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Greenland is important because you have everything there, but no people.
In a certain way, you have the resources.
I don't believe that we should go on another planet.
This is part, particularly when it comes from the Silicon Valley type of an imagination, because this world is becoming kind of unlivable for us.
But there is some important paradox.
And the paradox is the following.
Look at some of the countries that he likes a lot.
Emirates, the Gulf countries.
Listen, this is the country with the highest number of immigrants in the world.
So, it's not about migration, it's about migration with rights.
If they're going to come simply as a laborer- Yeah, those are workers, laborers, they don't have full rights.
Exactly.
And this is in my view the story, and I don't believe this is very famous.
In 1953, during the anti-communist protest in East Berlin, Brecht has this famous poem when he said, if the government does not like the people, they should elect the new people.
And this now suddenly you have a government who believe that they should elect people because otherwise the situation is getting out of control.
So, migrants are fine.
By the way, this is also true for Europe.
People normally are going to say Viktor Orban is very much against foreigners.
Do you know that in 2018, Hungary was the country that gave the most labor permits in the European Union?
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