MCIBTY: My Certification Is Better Than Yours
There was a book I read called “My Mercedes Is Bigger Than Yours” – which pretty much sums up what the book was all about: bragging rights as to whose car is “bigger”. In this case the practice, in some cultures, of using the model tag on a Mercedes -Benz car as an index of the economic and social power of its owner: for example, the Mercedes-Benz 200 designated the small rich while the Mercedes-Benz 500 SL announced the super rich. It was a typical intra-class war where your neighbor had to have a bigger and sometimes better car than the one you were driving. (more…)
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March 29, 2011