I think it's an awesome project that the humankind needs, even if it just to increase interest in space travel and the colonization of Mars.
Then there's the street people in the U.S. - a lot of them ex-military - and the homeless kids, and the people living in their cars because they lost their homes to a corrupt banking system, all who don't think about the Mars One project very much, because they are almost starving to death.
