All the buzz these days is about Space X mission plan to land humans on mars. Everyone including myself is super excited about the infinite opportunities this will bring for the human race. There are so many fascinating new technologies that are involved in the whole mission, but as Elon himself puts it; Space X is going to be the provider for the trip same way as railroads joint east and west US coasts. This is not an easy or small task at all but I have some other concerns of myself. One of biggest moments in Elon’s talk was when he humbly said:

“I should say also that the main reason I’m personally accumulating assets is in order to fund this. so I really don’t have any other motivation for personally accumulating assets except to be able to make the biggest contribution I can to making life multi-planetary.”
So here is a man that truly have an aim and sees money as a mean to reach it. While there are others who will use this opportunity to extract wealth from a whole new planet as they did from all states on earth. One of their big questions is what will be the currency on mars. There are many suggestions already made but in my opinion, we shouldn’t have any currency on mars. There is our chance to make the right decision and create a better more sustainable economic system that is not built on wealth extraction and constant growth. There would be more than enough resources on mars for all the 1 million initial population and if you are asking how there can be a community without money I refer you to read more about Jacque Fresco’s Venus Project. With the best hope for a brighter future for human as a species, here start a big wait for first settlers to reach the red planet.