We live in a very car-centric culture, everything is a reminder.
Brand is a useless detail.
For nerds a detailed model wound be needed.
And for those saying ‘that means rich’ - again more model info of the car the info if there person is rich is needed.
A detail from the OPs article like:
According to the media, notably “Ukrainska Pravda”, the attacker – a 44-year-old Oleksandr Khilyk – may also figure in a case of embezzlement of 25 million hryvnias for the procurement of winter uniforms for the Kyiv Territorial Defense.
Sorry, there seems to be some confusion & I prob wasn’t clear - I never said he wasn’t rich, the whole first part is a comment on the stupid article headline, the subject I was replying to (if anything, that it wasn’t clear from the headline that he was rich).
They had his ID, they could have just said ‘rich guy’ instead of driver.
This makes more sense, now I understand what you mean. I think they use “mercedes driver”, because it paints a picture. “Mercedes driver” implies not only “rich”, but also “entitled”, “anger management issues” and “difficulty with following road laws”.
And at the same time it allows the reader (who might share some of these characteristics) to still claim moral superiority over that guy (“At least I don’t drive a Mercedes”).
It is, in fact, a very clever headline that does quite a lot with very little.
It does so using stereotypes and prejudices, and that might totally be seen as despicable. But I wouldn’t call it stupid.
(In fact, labelling him as a “rich driver” does quite a similar thing. His wealth itself doesn’t really matter for the story, unless you want to evoke the connotations of “entitled”, “thinks he is above the law” and “gets away with doing things poor people could not get away with”, while allowing people who share some of these characteristics to still claim moral superiority (“I’m not a rich asshole like that guy”).)
The video you linked had a clip of the assailant with what looks like a mansion and several luxuries from a previous video. It definitely seems like this is a rich person.
Sorry, there seems to be some confusion & I prob wasn’t clear - I never said he wasn’t rich, the whole first part is a comment on the stupid article headline, the subject I was replying to (if anything, that it wasn’t clear from the headline that he was rich).
They had his ID, they could have just said ‘rich guy’ instead of driver.
We live in a very car-centric culture, everything is a reminder.
Brand is a useless detail.
For nerds a detailed model wound be needed.
And for those saying ‘that means rich’ -
again more model info of the carthe info if there person is rich is needed.A detail from the OPs article like:
There is a full vid too (some news vid):
What about the video makes you think he is not rich?
Sorry, there seems to be some confusion & I prob wasn’t clear - I never said he wasn’t rich, the whole first part is a comment on the stupid article headline, the subject I was replying to (if anything, that it wasn’t clear from the headline that he was rich).
They had his ID, they could have just said ‘rich guy’ instead of driver.
This makes more sense, now I understand what you mean. I think they use “mercedes driver”, because it paints a picture. “Mercedes driver” implies not only “rich”, but also “entitled”, “anger management issues” and “difficulty with following road laws”.
And at the same time it allows the reader (who might share some of these characteristics) to still claim moral superiority over that guy (“At least I don’t drive a Mercedes”).
It is, in fact, a very clever headline that does quite a lot with very little.
It does so using stereotypes and prejudices, and that might totally be seen as despicable. But I wouldn’t call it stupid.
(In fact, labelling him as a “rich driver” does quite a similar thing. His wealth itself doesn’t really matter for the story, unless you want to evoke the connotations of “entitled”, “thinks he is above the law” and “gets away with doing things poor people could not get away with”, while allowing people who share some of these characteristics to still claim moral superiority (“I’m not a rich asshole like that guy”).)
The video you linked had a clip of the assailant with what looks like a mansion and several luxuries from a previous video. It definitely seems like this is a rich person.
Sorry, there seems to be some confusion & I prob wasn’t clear - I never said he wasn’t rich, the whole first part is a comment on the stupid article headline, the subject I was replying to (if anything, that it wasn’t clear from the headline that he was rich).
They had his ID, they could have just said ‘rich guy’ instead of driver.