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Human civilization on Earth has increasingly been plagued with income inequality, unproductive education systems, and gender-based discrimination. In the United States, the majority of society’s wealth is held by the richest individuals, public education is underfunded and inefficient, and women are still underrepresented in certain sectors of the workforce. These societal failures result in suppressed opportunities for most individuals. However, with recent technological advances, Mars may soon be within reach; humans may now be presented with the opportunity to construct an ideal society from nothing, a utopia that will allow people equity in both income and wellbeing.
With an understanding of the complex nature of this problem, our model focuses on improving these three shortcomings. In the income model, our goal was to reduce income inequality by implementing the Nordic model of society. From this, we derived a minimum wage of $20,000 as well as a progressive tax rate that increases with income until a cap of 50%. We measured inequality with the Gini coefficient, reducing it from .58 to .33, which approaches Nordic levels. In the education model, we used a weighted decision matrix, ranking different academic disciplines with how much they contribute towards our society’s espoused values and fields of economic application. In the social equality model, we used opportunity cost analysis to simulate the retention rate of men and women in the workforce based on the cost of childcare and other demographic data. From this, we determined a standard childcare cost of $7,500 as well as equal lengths of maternity and paternity leave. We incorporated the education and social equality models with the income and tax model to verify that our policies are economically viable.
After establishing our models, we generated a representative population to study the long- term dynamics of their demographic composition on Mars. We discovered that:
1. Human capital will initially decease as Population Zero dies off, but begins to increase in the long run due to returns on our educational system
2. The demographics of Population Zero and subsequent migrants greatly affect the stability of our ideal utopian society, as undesired distributions could offset the equality our policies seek to establish
3. There exist oscillations in the age distribution of the population due to the nature of scheduled migrations from Earth to Mars
In attempting to establish a utopian society, we also consider the limitations of our model with respect to its scope. The colony on Mars is unprecedented and may exhibit different characteristics from the societies we know of on Earth. Specifically, it may prove difficult or even impossible to maintain true equilibrium in our economy, given that it is mostly isolated from other civilizations. In selecting our migrants, we assume that people are capable of both setting aside their Earthly stereotypes and acting in accordance with their best long-term interests of preserving the utopian ideals.
Ultimately, we are not just approaching a new interplanetary frontier; we are exploring a new model for the ideal society.
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