The Moon Rock Crisis of 2016: another short story

In the year 2016, a moon rock will sell for $42,190 to an entrepreneur who was independently wealthy named Douglas McWhorter. At this time in world history, entrepreneurs and independently wealthy people (both terms always indicate the same people) will account for a vast majority of the economies of developed countries. The people of Earth will learn about the opportunity to buy Moon rocks by way of GlobeTube: a virtual device that is implanted in the left eye of every new born child.

From the moment that every human is born it experiences what is known in decades of the past as television or digital entertainment, but only in one eye, and the display is some sort of elaborate hologram with vivid colors and depth. GlobeTube is a self-operated device, and the only moment in which the subject has no control is when advertisements (streaming from the subject's home country's national network) superimpose themselves every two minutes and thirty seconds.

Liberty Lunar Mining (based out of Carslbad, California) was contracted by the United States (who convinced the U.N. to grant it absolute sovereignty of Lunar affairs) to mine rocks from the Moon. The rocks ranged anywhere from $12,000 to roughly $100,000 in price, making them affordable for the mass of independently wealthy, and, to be honest, excruciatingly bored, entrepreneurs who were delighted to stake their claim to a piece of the Earth's sattelite.

Come 2018, LLM had removed enough mass from the Moon to cause the Earth's gravity to pull it into the atmosphere and send it colliding into the Earth's crust. In short, the Moon now surmounts a large portion of the California coastline and the Liberty Lunar Mining operation literally extinguished itself. Most of the excruciatingly bored independently wealthy entrepreneurs survived the catastrophe.