What kind of societies will the first Mars colonies be?

It would look like the American Wild West

Probably whatever the fuck happened in the colonial era.

Definitely not the Martian Chronicles.
Until spaceflight becomes a LOT cheaper, colonists will be picked for their abilities (physical or mental) to contribute to the success of the colony.
You're confusing "people who'd want to go" with "people the Earth is willing to transport."
If it had cost a million dollars per person to send people to Australia, think England would have used it as a way to get rid of bodies they didn't want?

Elon Musk's scenario is selling tickets to wealthy people who want to leave Earth. But the wealthy, by and large, aren't interested in a life of backbreaking work without luxuries.

The first explorers will be astronaut/scientists who want to learn about a new world -- and are willing to take some risk of dying. After that, I don't know.

Sure this will be only scientists. Normies (even rich normies) don't want to travel in space

We haven't even used up all the empty space on Earth. Why would we care about moving to Mars?

I'm just gonna sit on Earth and be cozy until the singularity gets here, at which point the question will be moot.

Anarchoprimitivists

A mix of rich crazy people and desperate losers, all being wrangled by overworked and increasingly annoyed astronauts and military personnel. I expect that our colonies (if we ever make one) will collapse and we won't try again.

Weapons testing colonies desu

Go to bed Kim Stanley Robinson.

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