Colonize Space and the American Colonies

This is a thought Experiment.

Imagine that we sent to the Moon a 1000 people with the goal to set up a self sufficient colony, and one to Mars, and set one up also on a very large asteroid for mining rare earth elements.

According to the bankers and the government all that would need to be done is to drop the people off with large piles on money and then instantly a perfect free market would form and all would be a great success. Of course the space colonists would all die instantly as money is nothing. What they need is real capital. And that is all the things they need to build the living space, the mines, the plants to refine water and air and the green houses to grow food.

If we extrapolate this situation and compare it to the colonization of America we might conclude that these space colonies would probably grow infinitely faster than economies on earth and in a few centuries these colonies would do much as the American colonies did in the late 1700's, they would break free from planet earth. And the reason would be the same, to break free from the limitations of the encrusted banking and power systems of earth in the space colonists case, as it was for the American colonies to break free from the banking of the English and
Europeans.

The original USA prospered greatly for about 150 years and then the bankers got back in on the act and since that time the US has become a global empire of war and set on a track the track of worship of money as the representation for all things that it is not.

Space is a harsh mistress and there will be no denying that every single aspect of life and continuance are based upon the capital of human ingenuity and use of real materials and not on bankers whims to grant monetary allowance.

This gets me back to the idea that money is a tool for efficient trade of goods of services, it is not a good or service in itself. Money is not a good or service in itself. It is a tool.

If you were a carpenter would you accumulate millions of hammers and saws?
If you were a baker would you warehouse stock piles of cook ware and ovens?
Would a writer be richer if they hoarded millions of cubic feet of paper and pens.

It is not the tool or how many tools you have, it is the human use of the tool and the resultant creation of real things and real services that are the capital. The symbolic cultural transaction medium, the cash or digital credit or the promissory note these are imaginary representations of the real things in the real world, and hence should be treated as such.

Unfortunately we now have things turned around the other way and are rapidly building a world that can not be sustained.

We have the tool and we have the knowledge and many can see the way out but do we have the collective awareness to unshackle ourselves?

As an aside: support space colonization. It will get mining off the earth and help the environment eventually. And hopefully one day if we fail in getting free here on earth the space colonies will surpass us and go freely off into infinite space unhindered by what a bank, an insurance company and a government official say is so.