> How much did european colonization of the east coast cost? Not a lot. People actually paid to move there because it resulted in a significant improvement in

> How much did european colonization of the east coast cost? Not a lot. People actually paid to move there because it resulted in a significant improvement in living conditions/income/etc. on average (besides the few earliest attempts). Colonization and exploration was almost entirely driven by profit union at least the 1800s or so. Colonizing Mars wouldn’t be even remotely comparable in almost any way to what happened in the Americas/Australia/etc. > selling everything and taking a one way trip into a new frontier. Yeah, because there was a lot of free land there/natural resources/high demand for labor etc.