Nearby-Onion3593 t1_j0o8oms wrote on December 18, 2022 at 4:12 AM

Not sure what will happen, but a few key turning points are:

Transition from cafeteria food service to individuals purchasing and making their own food to eat.

Ability to own your own personal space. (aside: I'm a native English speaker and still had to check if 'own your own' was a correct usage ...)

As implied in the above, the transition from a command or para-military economy (which is a version of 'from each according to ability, to each according to need') to a monetary economy.

Some very interesting fiction could be set in a mars colony that has reached *enough* population to begin these transitions.

Who will be the first homeowner on mars? Who will have the first hot-dog stand?

On a large ship in the US Navy, eating is cafeteria and housing is assigned, but there are vending machines (and other stores) that use cash. So my guess is that that is how the transition from command economy to cash economy will begin, with the introduction of pay which can be used for luxury or supplemental items.

[deleted] t1_j0p4u51 wrote on December 18, 2022 at 10:36 AM

i wonder if martians would go with the own food production path. personal space is a must, but considering the resources used to build and maintain a single user kitchen one would consider that it would be better for comunal kitchens to be the norm.

but it mostly depends on the experiences of martian citizens and the result of their social experiments. if they assign a single user kitchen as a sign of success then you are right on the money in that evaluation, but if they assign success to a well maintained and luxurious comunal kitchen then things could be different. it mostly depends on what martians will consider their culture.