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Re:Huge Mars Colony Eyed by SpaceX Founder Elon Musk by stcredzero on Friday November 23, 2012 @03:40PM (#4823593)
Just make all banking on Mars electronic. If you don't pay your bills, you flat-out don't have money. This even works in a Free market version, as banks will probably cooperate on debtors even while they're competing everywhere else.
Re:Huge Mars Colony Eyed by SpaceX Founder Elon Musk by sixQuarks on Friday November 23, 2012 @06:50PM (#4824072)
Yeah, but people won't let their fellow Martians suffer. They will likely band together since they share such a unique circumstance.