That is the fun thing about Iceland and its people; everyone has 2-3 wildly disparate jobs, and they're just as good at all of them. No-one in Iceland thinks it's odd that a musician should also be a VC.
Tho' they have deep, deep structural problems with their economy; compared to the Icelanders the British were sensible with credit. I'd wish them luck sorting it out but they don't need it, they'll have their act together long before we do.
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...
They'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.
> 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.
Oh, Bono was always in it for the money. It's worth noting that Bjork intends to invest in Iceland and Bono has moved all his money out of Ireland and into offshore tax havens.
Tho' they have deep, deep structural problems with their economy; compared to the Icelanders the British were sensible with credit. I'd wish them luck sorting it out but they don't need it, they'll have their act together long before we do.