There does, and it does, but that doesn't really seem to be the point of the story to me. This is very much a "loud exhausts correlate to dark triad personality traits" kind of story. Or perhaps more like how everyone knows they participate in actual atrocity and torture against vulnerable individuals but just keep buying their corpses.

Too bad there isn't and we are stuck with cops :P

I guarantee that most of the apes buying emotional support vehicles do not think or care about the world outside their idiot brains.

Conspicuous cuntsumption maybe. They can tell people how much they pay for it?

Around 2020, manufacturers all but stopped making small cars since it's easier for them to make SUVs and trucks with weaker emissions standards. It's almost impossible to find any compact that was made after 2020, especially in the US. I'm sure it's only a bonus that they're typically more expensive than small cars.

There's also the problem that the more SUVs and trucks dominate the streets, the more dangerous they become for everyone. Your average car weighs as much as a damn elephant nowadays. I own a compact but hate driving because it's like being in the middle of a drunken stampede.

At the end of the day, fuck cars.

I think a lot of people don't want them. But in my case there wasn't any normal car that had the features I wanted. I'd rather not need it but I really do if I'm gonna be able to work full time.

I mean, very obviously not everybody sees this, otherwise we wouldn't have streets full of deadly vehicles would we?