A closer look
Entrepreneur Dennis Hope has made millions of dollars by selling plots of land on the Moon and Mars, exploiting a loophole in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty that forbids nations from claiming celestial bodies but allegedly ignores private individuals. People are literally paying real, earth-based currency for a worthless piece of paper claiming they own a crater on a rock they will never visit, which is arguably the most brilliant real estate scam in the history of the universe. It proves that the human desire to own property is so pathological that we will eagerly buy up barren, irradiated wasteland in a vacuum just to feel like we made an investment. As housing prices on Earth become completely unaffordable for the average citizen, the only logical step for a desperate generation is to buy a fake lunar deed and pretend they finally achieved the dream of homeownership in the cosmos
