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This is why flying cars are one of my least favorite sci-fi tropes. Clearest example of just replicating the present world but in a futuristic way.
On that note, apparently flying cars are one of Trump's 2024 campaign promises.
the flying car already exists! it's called the hot air balloon, and it is piloted only by those of upstanding moral character.
I really hate "futurology" that just involves the same stagnant and unjust and ruinous status quo but with more bazinga toys and maybe immortality and superpowers. A glaring example of that was when
posted a picture that he said was his vision for Mars. It was just a big many-laned highway with cars on it with a red lens filter. 
My biggest related pet peeve is liberal sci-fi. When I'm reading a book about some way far-future people in deep space and they casually bring up money, or a recent war, it just completely takes me out of it. Like, motherfuckers, how did your species survive this long? Shouldn't you have outgrown that shit by now?
In the fantastical far future, your protagonist may have a space truck and goes space trucking to pay bills.