Philippos Metzger has dropped some threads on The Big Bird about the economics of near-Earth settlement. Here is Mars (contra krugtron the short); here is the Moon.
I will state up-front I am no ecomalomyist, beyond the bare Hanania minimum of accepting that an ecomalomy exists. And that I haven't trusted krugtron since his Enron days.
Metzger is of interest since he is NOT a Marsbro. He makes clear in his comments that he's more interested in asteroid-settlement by way of mining colonies ("O'Neill"). Metzger is here playing the part of "HistoryForAtheists" in taking Mars' part because bad anti-Mars arguments will be used against Metzger's own er, hobby horse.
Winchell Chung would suggest the Musk-Metzger compromise of settling not Mars but Deimos.
BACKDATE 6/12
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