The islanders are not desperate right now. You'd have to wait for the coming economic implosion. You could migrate there by the dozens and gain enough political power to help set policy, which I think is more realistic than trying to overtly buy them out in one move. The best would be a gradual infiltration and convincing (with money galore to help in the convincing). I could not accomplish that by myself. With perhaps 5 other like-minded guys and their extended families migrating there, we could probably accomplish it. The UK would fight us, but fuck them. As I explained earlier, there are limits to what they can do. Did you see the rape case on the island? The UK couldn't even put them in prison for a long time. The governor of the island was involved.
Looks kind of nice actually...
I would go crazy there. Especially they don't have fiber optic cable so the internet is atrociously slow (Tahiti has it some 1000 miles away). There is no way to land a plane there, so it is 3 days by boat to the nearest island that has air access (the other island under their nation could handle an airport but the UN declared it a private wildlife refuge
). The island is pretty damn small. Be okay if you like the people a lot and enjoy being around them.I'd say if we could upgrade the infrastructure, and accomplish our goal, it might be worth trying?
We'd have to invest some time living there. We couldn't just waltz in and take over in one week. This would be a disruption to our lives. Is it worth it?
Also we'd really have to maintain the lives of the people there and what they love. I think they are essentially already anarchists, but they have some socialist needs.
One thing is the locals are not reproducing and many want to leave. So they would I think over time wither away in political control, if our offspring and immigrations were significant.
Chickenshit
All talk, no action.If self-flagellation and voluntary imprisonment, to avoid the spectre of government of course, is your thing then go for it.
What's the difference between a remote "sovereign" island, and a remote "prison" island? The name.
You're probably making it far too complicated btw. Couldn't you just sue the Brits for negligently putting Pitcairn in the path of your expensive container ship?
Then buy them out as part of the settlement.
Redecorate the ship with a landing strip. Problem solved! Until the next storm...
It would probably be a waste of your skills though. Get back to programming. Stop caring so much about imaginary monsters. Make some apps to help people. You've fallen into the trap of being an "expert", who tries to improve the world while forgetting that you're the one learning.
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It is a lot of effort to undertake. I would not even consider it, unless I was sure we had a plan to outnumber the existing population.