<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 5:38 AM John Grigg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<p><font size="4">Elon Musk and Kanye West shall lead them...</font></p></div></blockquote><div>While the economic and political ends are better explored than in most proposals, ultimately the economics rest on the untenable assumption that merely living on Mars would itself be worth a lot of money to an endless flood of people able to pay said high price. It categorically rejects the notion of trade with Earth: once any matter enters their system, it never leaves.</div><div><br></div><div>This is not viable, no matter the amount of attention paid to the physical infrastructure.</div></div></div>