3 days travel to reach the moon. Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Jeff Bezos are racing to make it possible. Soon, the next generation of Zoomers (Mooners?) will invent a derogatory term for the sad, balding "Earthies" stuck here on the ground - either too scared or too fat to board the craft. Feet in the mud, going nowhere. Jeff Bezos will host a press conference publicly calling you a pussy if you don't want to go. President Elon Musk will come to your house and punch you in the mouth.
The reason you want to go is specifically because there's nothing there.
In the same way Euro settlers flocked to America escaping the landed aristocracy, you go to Mars to carve out a spot for yourself and test out new social / political structures that aren't currently possible to explore on earth due to inextricably entrenched ideas and broken democracies that don't allow for change.
On Mars 90 degree angles will be outlawed. We will live and work in round / spherical buildings where everyone has a seat at the table with Elon enshrined in the center as the Martian Messiah.
Jeff wants to move all heavy industry off world and turn Earth into a biological preserve.
I believe Jeff Bezos/Elon Musk/NASA are tricking us - they want us to think we should go to Mars/the Moon so they can keep the Earth all to themselves.