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Re:The Triumph of Philanthropy (2018) by readthenotes1 on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @06:10PM (#39923897)
For the take home of the current Powerball lottery, one could take over Haiti or any number of small troubled countries.

You have to be really rich to think about eradicating a disease though...

Re:The Triumph of Philanthropy (2018) by ThinkBeat on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @06:46PM (#39924292)
That would be a most temporary ownership I should think. Inherently unstable countries tend to get rid of the rulers at a high frequency than stable ones.

Unless you have the military power to maintain dictatorship and money to buy the protection of a superpower.

But even then it is tenuous.

Taking over a stable country would be far easier in the long term. Yet when stable countries undergo major change, they tend to gravitate towards unstableness.

Re:The Triumph of Philanthropy (2018) by readthenotes1 on Thursday April 04, 2024 @03:58PM (#39935107)
Papa Doc and Baby Doc ruled Haiti for 2 generations...