> What about going to a different planet makes you think we won't just be taking those same problems with us? It'll just be wealthy people for a long time. Wea

> What about going to a different planet makes you think we won't just be taking those same problems with us? It'll just be wealthy people for a long time. Wealth is strongly correlated with intelligence, peace, and other desirable factors. Perhaps the social baseline will be a lot higher. This is hard to predict given that we don't really know what the psychological and epigenetic effects of going to mars will be.