Yes, I noticed that article about lab-grown meat the other day, too. Which is kind of too bad, because I’d actually prefer to not have to slaughter pigs for pork. In any event, as he notes, this does seem to be an effort by the “elites” to make themselves more elite by making the rest of us more miserable.
I talked to an eighteen YO neighbor a few years ago (not sure what she’s doing now) who didn’t have a driver’s license, and had no plans to get one. Her parents chauffeured her everywhere, and she was happy with that.