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by throwaway1974 3542 days ago
> why would an entrepreneur want to set up shop on Mars?

Lack of regulation?

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The inherent difficulty of the Martian environment is far more restrictive and expensive than even the most draconian regulations.

The only way this would make sense is if one's objection to regulations was purely ideological and not grounded in any sort of reality-based cost-benefit analyses. Setting up shop in a failed state is far easier than setting up shop on Mars, and that will remain true for the foreseeable future (and probably forever, or until no failed states exist).

Only when Mars becomes self-sufficient. As long as Mars is dependent on Earth, enforcing regulations would be ridiculously easy: do as we say or starve (or run out of some other essential resource).