What does love have to do with it? <Just object to the high prices you are estimating. If tradable citizenships are priced at 1 million, probably 90 percent will find another way to get it, even it means they convince themselves that they love a citizen> I guess you think countries are so dumb as to let somebody become a citizen by mere marriage. They used to do that, but that scam has been stymied lately [in at least some countries]. When real values are assigned, such swindles will be even more limited and in fact there is no reason at all to give somebody a free one just because they married a citizen.
The $1 million is just my guess at what they'd be worth initially [for the good countries] based on GDP per person and other values such as clean air, supply and demand and what have you. If they were much lower for certain countries [such as $50,,000 or $100,000] I would buy a bunch - Greece, France, England, Hawaii would be worth that to me and I expect they'd go up in price [maybe not England with reglaciation due in 8 years but it's a nice place in summer].
The reason people risk and lose their lives and incur $40,000 charges to join an illegal action is because the value they hope to gain is so high. Those are people at the bottom of the pile with low potential incomes. Those at the top with real money will pay vastly more.
There would be 100,000 people in China who would buy one tomorrow for NZ at $1 million. There might be that many in India who would outbid them to $2 million. When there is easy money to be made from something such as a capital gain in a citizenship, combined with personal benefits such as freedom, people crowd in. Apart from the purchase price, the economic boom would be huge as construction and other things got under way in a big way. $100 billion would wipe NZ's government debts. 100,000 people would fit in among 4 million easily enough.
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