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Just what we need--start spreading our legal monstrosities across the universe!

Jokes aside, this is one thing I don't understand about Elon's viewpoints. He's afraid Earth's insanity will destroy itself, which is why we must spread to other planets. He forgets that as soon as he relocates people to Mars, that same insanity will be relocated with them.

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Mars has an opportunity to start from scratch, with the current knowledge about political systems but superior technology. It's a golden opportunity to start anew the human race.

Take for example the current elections in USA. Elections in Mars could be a two-round blockchained poll transmitted in real time. It would be over in minutes instead of weeks.

It also has the opportunity to ignore knowledge we already have, for example that elections over an internet cannot be both secret and trustworthy. Other countries manage to conduct an election and count the votes within a day or two – using paper ballots.

And what have we learned? That capitalism works untill it destroy everything? Communist Mars?

We learned that capitalism and communism are the extremes, and we need something in the middle, with regulated capitalism mixed with socialism. And very strong transparency to avoid elites to embed in the middle and suck wealth and influence without providing societal value in return.

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