Lets say Mars doesnt just grow an atmosphere and its magnetic field is the same and whatnot. And humans that are poor or stuff is thrown to Mars because the Earth is getting overpopulated. These people would be living underground in Mars while the rich enjoy their life on earth
What if you need to pay to live on Earth?
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I’d predict a lot of terrorism and more people shooting rich people.
maybe that’s what taxes are?
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I mean, don’t we already pay to live here?
Ain’t nothing in this world for free.
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I’d be broke
We already do
I’d pay for a lot of things if I had the money. Are you asking if I’d rather live on Mars? That would be a a no from me, dawg. Yeah, I’d pay to live on earth if I was able to and that was the requirement.
You already do need to pay to live on earth. If you don’t pay taxes, buy food or land, or become some kind of primitive off grid woods hermit – you die.
Who exactly would get that money?
It would take more resources for them to live on Mars than it would to live on Earth. Transporting them there would also be very costly.
This might be the case in a future where survival on Mars is cheap and easy but Mars is a less desirable place to live than Earth.
You ever heard of property taxes?
If you think the amount of poor people here would allow us to be shipped to mars you’re so wrong. There would be the greatest slaughter of wealth in existence of history.
There are very few people living for free on this earth now.
Everyone reading these words has to pay to live here.
It’s already pay to live here or end up homeless
Making people live underground on Earth would be a lot cheaper than sending them to Mars to live underground there.
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Its called taxes
Isn’t there a Jeff bezos rant about large populations living on a space station in orbit and needing a permit to go to earth for vacation?
That would be a great time to know our history.
“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical”. Thomas Jefferson
We already do.
this is some Total Recall sh*t.
It takes 9 months to travel to Mars. This voyage is expected to cost in the millions. The idea of peasants being flown to Mars is laughable. This is just luxury science as usual
Where do you live that you don’t pay now?
You forgot to add a condition under which it makes more sense to ship someone all the way to Mars instead of just marginalizing them until they die or stop attracting attention.
Yeah, we already have to pay to live on Earth. We are the only species on the planet that can’t get food and housing for free.
It will cost you upwards of 3 to 4 million to live an average life.
If?
how is that different from rent/food+water bills?
We already pay. What do you mean if we had to pay?
They wouldn”t spend a few million to ship the poors from Earth to Mars just so ya’ll can live in poverty over there.
If they could get to that kind of dystopic sci-fi vision of the future, they’re probably just throw you in a cobalt mine til you worked yourself to death.
You do. Unless you live on photosynthesis.
Mars could be a garden of eden it would still cost billions to send someone there so deporting the poor would appear an expensive proposition…
If we get to that dystopia, what incentive would there be to ship “useless” people to Mars, when it’s so much cheaper to ship them to the local bio-recycling facility and keep their precious biomass here on Earth?
…you already have to pay to live here. All land is settled, you can’t legally hunt, fish, or grow crops without paying for it. I hate when people are yelling “Yeah Murica Freedom!” You aren’t allowed to survive without money. It’s medieval serfdom just disguised in a different way.
“What if you need to pay to live on Earth?”
Welcome to reality.
“Lets say Mars doesnt just grow an atmosphere and its magnetic field is the same and whatnot. And humans that are poor or stuff is thrown to Mars because the Earth is getting overpopulated. These people would be living underground in Mars while the rich enjoy their life on earth”
If there is an atmosphere and a stable magnetic field on Mars why would the people “thrown” there living underground?
This is why you don’t hit the hippy lettuce before writing anything online OP.
and you wouldnt need to pay to live on mars?
I’m paying right now.
You clearly don’t understand how the world works.
The fundamental error of thinking the rich will go out of their way to make people suffer, rather than that they are willing to make people suffer in order to profit.
Isn’t that basically what you’re already doing when you monetize basic necessities for living such as rent, food and shelter?