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I'm kind of more interested in the political system that the first Martian base-camp will adhere to .. and how it will be organised at a socio-economic level -
by fit2rule 7y ago
I'm kind of more interested in the political system that the first Martian base-camp will adhere to .. and how it will be organised at a socio-economic level - are the first Martians going to have economy based on Access to Earth, etc?
I know its at least 20 - 50 years away from being any kind of reality, but surely there are smart people working on this problem. What's to stop Elons' Martian crew from mutiny and sedition .. a firm dependence on Earth?
Should we, therefore, go there before we get a chance to be independent as a colony - clearly there is as lot more work to be done on the subject of a self-sufficient colony, but how is that going to work out economically and socially, I wonder?
Doesn't seem to me to be getting enough attention. Or, are there existing structures and organisational models that would be exported to the Mars colony?
Startups on Mars? Free oxygen and access to the Starship hub for anyone who wants to colonise?
- nickik 7y agoF.A. Hayek always talked about local knowledge, and he picked up the idea of tacid knowledge from Polanyi. I think the specific conditions we will face in a second phase of mars expansion, are gone be limited and determined by local condition at that point in time. I think its a total fools ear fool's errandnd to try to reason this out in a theoretical setting such a long time ahead. Looking at research from Elenor Ostrom it seems pretty evident that a group of people with local knowledge can far easier and more efficiently solve most common resource problems then remote governments or cooperation can. And the same will very much be true on Mars.
- usrusr 7y agoCompany town. What else could it be? Whatever you do, you will never be more than a subcontractor.