Living on the moon works, because we can send supplies frequently like we do with the ISS. Meanwhile mars is so far away that anyone who goes there signs up for

Living on the moon works, because we can send supplies frequently like we do with the ISS. Meanwhile mars is so far away that anyone who goes there signs up for a suicide mission. Every single mars mission proposed by musk relies on a pyramid scheme where every round of launches sends more and more people until one day self sufficiency is achieved and the first guy sent to mars will have a chance of returning to earth.