I'd say that's a scam, not an argument for the usefulness of NFTs. My counterargument is that most NFTs made people lose money instead of buying them houses or oil fields.

I'd bet that most stories of NFTs translating to material wealth come from minters or the inner circle of early adopters, because they made something useless and valueless, and somehow convinced enough people that it was worth buying it for hard-earned cash. Many lost so a few could make bank.

They convinced fools to enter a rigged gamble.