Who needs people when you can have pets?

Bentley’s new concept vehicle:

Within its cabin, the design approach is just as forward-thinking. Created using virtual reality (VR) software to enable customers to see and experience a wider variety of possible configurations, it mixes familiar contemporary physical car interior features like luxury seating, wing-shaped dashboard, steering wheel, dials and switches with spellbindingly futuristic digital elements that can be brought to the fore or melt away into the background as driver mood or functional need requires.

The package is unusual for featuring three seats and three doors – rather than four or five of both – to afford greater luxury in transit for the special few and includes innovative in-cabin storage for treasured pets and/or hand luggage as well. When stationary even the boot space can take on a dual role as upmarket picnic seating.

Even if this concept doesn’t make it to production, the signs are clear:

Why have kids when you can have treasured pets?

Birth rates are declining all over the world, and one of those reasons is because of materialism.

“More for me and less to spend on someone else.”

Muslims of course are not immune to this trend, with women for some reason requiring a higher education costing hundreds of thousands of dollars that would require years to pay off before she can even think of having children - aka, true wealth.